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Inventing Modern
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Author : John H. Lienhard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-18
Inventing Modern written by John H. Lienhard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.
Inventing Modern America
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Author : David E. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 2003
Inventing Modern America written by David E. Brown and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
Inventing Modern Adolescence
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Author : Sarah E. Chinn
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009
Inventing Modern Adolescence written by Sarah E. Chinn and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Family & Relationships categories.
In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
Inventing The Modern World
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Author : R Bud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-10
Inventing The Modern World written by R Bud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10 with categories.
Drawing on the museum collections represented by the Science and Society Picture Library as well as the legendary resources of the Hulton Getty Picture Collection, 'Inventing the Modern World' explains in almost 500 images and vivid text the ever-changing relationship between technical change and industry, science and technology, and people and objects.
Inventing The Modern World
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Author : Robert Bud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Inventing The Modern World written by Robert Bud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Inventions categories.
What are the objects, inventions, power sources and processes that have changed our modern industrial culture? Who are the individuals behind their creation? How have people reacted to these newfangled contraptions? This account explores the answers to these questions. It traces the sweeping innovations and interconnections of each advance, in a flowing text that features almost 500 photographs with captions that further explain the story of how we've become who we are today.
Inventing Modern Adolescence
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Author : Sarah E. Chinn
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-05
Inventing Modern Adolescence written by Sarah E. Chinn and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with History categories.
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"—a stereotypical complaint against American teens—actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
Inventing The Modern World
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Author : Jason T. Busch
language : en
Publisher: Skira
Release Date : 2012
Inventing The Modern World written by Jason T. Busch and has been published by Skira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Decorative arts categories.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, April 14-August 19, 2012, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 13, 2012- February 24, 2013, New Orleans Museum of Art, April 12- August 4, 2013 and Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 9, 2013 - January 19, 2014.
Inventing Modern
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Author : John H. Lienhard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Inventing Modern written by John H. Lienhard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Material culture categories.
The Invention Of The Modern World
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Author : Alan Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-16
The Invention Of The Modern World written by Alan Macfarlane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-16 with Great Britain categories.
From the preface: 'This is a book which synthesizes a lifetime of reflection on the origins of the modern world. Through forty years of travel in Europe, Australia, India, Nepal, Japan and China I have observed the similarities and differences of cultures. I have read as widely as possible in both contemporary and classical works in history, anthropology and philosophy.' Prof Macfarlane is also the author of The Culture of Capitalism, The Savage Wars of Peace, The Riddle of the Modern World and The Making of the Modern World, among many others. This is the third book published by Odd Volumes, the imprint of The Fortnightly Review.
Inventing Abstraction 1910 1925
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Author : Leah Dickerman
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Release Date : 2012
Inventing Abstraction 1910 1925 written by Leah Dickerman and has been published by The Museum of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013).