US design 1975-2000
by
 
Miller, R. Craig.

Title
US design 1975-2000

Author
Miller, R. Craig.

ISBN
9783791327341
 
9783791326849

Publication Information
Munich ; New York : Prestel in association with the Denver Art Museum, ©2001.

Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

General Note
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.

Contents
Introduction / Things and change : how life shaped design (and design shaped life) in the final quarter of the twentieth century / Modernism in crises? Architectural theory of the last three decades / Points of view in American architecture / American decorative and industrial design : from crisis back to the vanguard / An era of innovation and diversity in graphic design, 1975-2000

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Design -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
 
Design -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Expositions.

Added Author
Miller, R. Craig.
 
Bletter, Rosemarie Haag.

Added Corporate Author
Denver Art Museum.


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