Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era

by Justus Nieland

Book Overview

A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames

For the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eameses modeled as they brought film into their design practice. Midcentury modernism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517902053
• ISBN13: 9781517902056
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 8.9"