Framtidsfrossa
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Futurama/Highways and horizons, General Motors pavilion, New York World Fair 1939. Norman Bel Geddes visar var skÃ¥pet ska stÃ¥. IngÃ¥r som en del av The house that private enterprise built, en dokumentation som ”explores the hyper-capitalistic partnership between the federal government and private enterprise in the 30’s wherein suburban residential fabric became a currency, an economic indicator, and major U.S. industry not unlike the automobile. In an exaggerated version of the long-standing American tradition of abstracting something as specific as land into a generic product, this period produced not only the assembly line house, but the assembly-line site.”
Mer Futurama, 1939.
Norman Bel Geddes papers, UT Austin.
Streamlining: Norman Bel Geddes and the rhetoric of modernism
Progressing: Walt Disney and jet-age city planning
Fair theme center and Futurama
En mängd amerikanska bilder frÃ¥n världsutställningar under 1930-talet. Bra! Bland annat är den här statyn ganska cool: ”A man and woman stretch out their hands as if in fear or ignorance; between them stands a huge angular robot nearly twice their size, bending low over them with an angular metallic arm thrown reassuringly around each…Technology protecting and guiding mankind. From Rene Dubos in American Scholar, Summer 1971, p. 390. The Guidebook to the Fair reads: ’Science discovers, genius invents, industry applies, and man adapts himself to, or is molded by, new things…Individuals, groups, entire races of men fall into step with science and industry.'”
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