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Material Culture in America
The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.
American Modernism
Presents an account of a key period in American graphic design as it manifested itself in various media, covering major historical influences and significant works.
Redesigning Animation
The animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) was able to challenge Disney supremacy in the 1950s entertainment market by creating cutting-edge animated cartoons. UPA films express a simplified audiovisual language consisting of stylized layout designs, asymmetrical compositions, colors applied flatly and in contrast with each other, limited animation and a minimalist use of sound effects. UPA artists developed this innovative style by assimilating those aesthetic features already expressed by Modern painters, graphic designers and advertisers. This book considers UPA films as Modern animations, because they synthesize a common minimalist tendency that was occurring in US animatio...
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters’ diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America. This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history, and American studies.
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Im Namen der Wahrheit macht sie sich die Hände schmutzig ... Für ihre Karriere tat Journalistin Susanne Mikula alles – dafür setzte sie auch reihenweise Redakteure auf die Straße, die sich gegen die politischen Verbündeten ihres Verlegers Hans-Otto Gleim stellten. Doch als Gleim sie des Diebstahls beschuldigt und fristlos kündigt, ahnt er noch nicht, dass er sich eine gefährliche Feindin geschaffen hat. Während ihre ehemaligen Kolleginnen und Kollegen ein eigenes Konkurrenzblatt auf die Beine stellen und damit zur Zielscheibe des Verlegers werden, setzt Mikula alles daran, die Leichen im Keller ihres Ex-Vorgesetzten auszugraben – wortwörtlich ... Der abgründige Auftakt der Dilogie um die knallharte Journalistin Susanne Mikula – Fans von Catherine Shepherd werden garantiert mitfiebern! In Band 2 ermittelt Susanne Mikula im Auftrag des reichsten Manns Deutschlands – geht ein Serienmörder in Hamburg um?
