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Eugenic Design

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Author : Christina Cogdell
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2004

Eugenic Design written by Christina Cogdell and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.

In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries—including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss—to design a dress for the "Woman of the Future" as part of its special issue promoting the New York World's Fair and its theme, "The World of Tomorrow." While focusing primarily on her clothing and accessories, many commented as well on the future woman's physique, predicting that her body and mind would be perfected through the implementation of eugenics. Industrial designers' fascination with eugenics—especially that of Norman Bel Geddes—began during the previous decade, and its principles permeated their theories of the modern design style known as "streamlining." In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could—and should—be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies. Both considered themselves to be reformers advancing evolutionary progress through increased efficiency, hygiene and the creation of a utopian "ideal type." Cogdell reconsiders the popular streamline style in U.S. industrial design and proposes that in theory, rhetoric, and context the style served as a material embodiment of eugenic ideology. With careful analysis and abundant illustrations, Eugenic Design is an ambitious reinterpretation of one of America's most significant and popular design forms, ultimately grappling with the question of how ideology influences design.

The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Eugenics

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Author : Alison Bashford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03

The Oxford Handbook Of The History Of Eugenics written by Alison Bashford 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 2010-08-03 with History categories.

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.

Design Issues

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

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Popular Eugenics

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Author : Susan Currell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Popular Eugenics written by Susan Currell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

In a series of revealing essays, Popular Eugenics demonstrates that eugenic thought persisted in science and culture as well as in social policy and goes a long way toward explaining the durability of eugenic thinking and its effects on social policy in the United States.

The New Prometheans

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Author : John S. Lambert
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1973

The New Prometheans written by John S. Lambert and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

American Studies

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

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American Streamlined Design

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Author : David A. Hanks
language : en
Publisher: Flammarion
Release Date : 2005-08-30

American Streamlined Design written by David A. Hanks and has been published by Flammarion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-30 with Design categories.

"The twentieth century loved machines and the speed they made possible. Speeding cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metal skins embodied a new and modern beauty, one that especially enchanted American designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Streamlining became the popular American style for all sorts of objects: from toy scooters to typewriters, from power tools to teakettles." "This book celebrates this beauty as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, as well as in works by many lesser-known industrial designers whose products are presented here for the first time. The book also demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present." "This volume is illustrated with patent drawings and period photographs showing how these dynamically styled objects were used. The one hundred eighty objects presented here, drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by pieces from the Stewart Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study."--BOOK JACKET.

Conference On The Eugenic Aspects Of Housing Of The American Eugenics Society At The Town Hall Club

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Author : American Eugenics Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938

Conference On The Eugenic Aspects Of Housing Of The American Eugenics Society At The Town Hall Club written by American Eugenics Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with categories.

Id

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Id written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Industrial design categories.

Abstracts Of Papers Delivered In Art History Sessions

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Author : College Art Association of America. Meeting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Abstracts Of Papers Delivered In Art History Sessions written by College Art Association of America. Meeting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.