The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together on a Shag Rug in the Seventies - Brossura

Hine, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374531676 ISBN 13: 9780374531676

Casa editrice: Sarah Crichton Books, 2009

Riassunto

One of America's sharpest design critics maps a complex era by looking at the ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, artistic expressions, demographic forces, colors, and other phenomena that shaped the lives of those who experienced the 1970s. Reprint.

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era, climbing into the heads (and shoes!) of those --who experienced the 1970s, exploring the designs

of their homes, the styles of their fashion and --the advertisements that set their desires on fire.

A brilliantly original, wonderfully lively look at --the ""me decade"" through the eyes of the man House

L'autore:

Thomas Hine writes on design, culture, and history. He is the author of five books, includingPopuluxe. That title, coined by Hine to describe the styles and enthusiasms of post-World War II America, has entered the American idiom and is now included in the American Heritage and Random House dictionaries. From 1973 until 1996, Hine was the architecture and design critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he wrote a weekly column called "Surroundings." He has worked as an adviser for museums across the country and contributes frequently to magazines, includingThe Atlantic, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record, and others. He lives in Philadelphia.

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• Editore: Sarah Crichton Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0374531676
• ISBN 13: 9780374531676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 241