US design 1975-2000 / introduction, R. Craig Miller ; essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter [and others].

Title & Author:

US design 1975-2000 / introduction, R. Craig Miller ; essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter [and others].

Publication:

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name organized by the Denver Art Museum.
Exhibition tour: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, Feb.-May 2002; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, Feb.-May 2003; American Craft Museum, New York, New York, June-Oct. 2003; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Nov. 2003-Feb. 2004.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / R. Craig Miller -- Things and change : how life shaped design (and design shaped life) in the final quarter of the twentieth century / Thomas Hine -- Modernism in crises? Architectural theory of the last three decades / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- Points of view in American architecture / David G. DeLong -- American decorative and industrial design : from crisis back to the vanguard / R. Craig Miller -- An era of innovation and diversity in graphic design, 1975-2000 / Philip B. Meggs.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Focusing on three generations of American designers and the movements they have embraced & reinvented, this text shows how most aspects of life during the last quarter of the 20th century has been infused with the creativity & genius of its designers.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3791327348 (softcover)
9783791327341 (softcover)
3791326848 (hardcover)
9783791326849 (hardcover)

Subject:

Design United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design
Architektur
Grafikdesign
Industriedesign
Ausstellung
Industriële vormgeving.
Vormgeving.
design Etats-Unis 1975 2000 catalogue d'exposition.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Catalog
Exhibition
Ausstellung Denver (Colo.) 2001.
exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Exhibition catalogs
History
Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm)
Catalogues d'exposition.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Miller, R. Craig.
Bletter, Rosemarie Haag.
Denver Art Museum.

United States design 1975-2000

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317146
Call No.: 317146
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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