Textiles as the Face of Modernity: Artistry and Industry in Mid-Century America
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DOI: 10.1080/00404969.2019.1587237
Abstract: This article examines the rise of a new profession of textile designer-intermediary in mid-twentieth-century America in light of the nation’s advancements in textile production, design, display and promotion. Unlike William Morris’s nineteenth-century call for a… read more here.
Keywords: century america; century; face modernity; textiles face ... See more keywords
‘Thrills Sweep Like Electric Currents through Multitudes’: Spectacle, Sociality, and Media Competition in Mid-Century America
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DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2020.1815355
Abstract: This article analyses contemporaneous debates over the competing screen formats, venues, and technological platforms designed to deliver moving images to domestic and public audiences in mid-twentieth century America. The postwar crisis in the American theatrical… read more here.
Keywords: like electric; thrills sweep; sweep like; competition ... See more keywords
Physiocracy in the eighteenth-century America. Economic theory and political weapons
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1791438
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay aims at reconsidering the impact of Physiocratic ideas on the United States context during and after the American Revolution, which represented the first turning point concerning the democratic implications of political economy.… read more here.
Keywords: theory political; physiocracy eighteenth; america economic; eighteenth century ... See more keywords