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As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s


  


: As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
EAN: 9780674048836
Feature: Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN: 0674048830
Item Dimensions: 92161410571
Label: Harvard University Press
Languages: EnglishPublishedEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 01, 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: March 01, 1996
Studio: Harvard University Press

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America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, this book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.

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Opening with a photograph of a 1950s Disneyland home designed in the shape of a TV (by those fun-loving futurists at MIT), this book's text and photos consistently maintain a balance between insightful social commentary and critique and sensitive recapturing of the essence of visual broadcast's dawn.




 



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