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Author:   Danielle Shapiro
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780816693412

ISBN 10:   0816693412
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction: Creating Design We Can Live With 1. Drawing Modernity: Advertising and Book Illustrations 2. Becoming an Industrial Designer 3. Modernizing the Home through Radio 4. Designed for Electricity: Vassos’s Architectural Interiors 5. Vassos and RCA: Money, Media, and Modernism 6. The TRK-12: RCA’s First Mass-Marketed Television Receiver 7. John Vassos in Postwar America Conclusion: The Legacy of John Vassos Acknowledgments Notes Index

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In our current era of watching TV on an iPod or a smartphone, Shapiro stimulates broad discussions of the meaning of technological design for mass media in daily life. ArtDaily.org

In our current era of watching TV on an iPod or a smartphone, Shapiro stimulates broad discussions of the meaning of technological design for mass media in daily life. ArtDaily.org

John Vassos is a complex portrait of an artist and designer whose early illustration work criticized the tempo and commercialism of modern life but whose later design work took for granted those same qualities and attempted to accommodate people to them. Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin

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Danielle Shapiro is an independent scholar who has served as senior program officer in the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She earned her PhD in art history and communications studies from McGill University.

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