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Episode 12 - Streamline moderne, Part 2
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" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? "
Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss why it took particular root in Depression-era America, and also discuss how the critics viewed modern art in the 1930s.
Photo credit: Wes Magyar
To explore future:
- Book, Bush, "The Streamlined Decade", George Braziller Inc, 1075
- Pictures of the Hoover Model 150 by Henry Dreyfuss
- Pictures of the Oriole gas stove by Norman Bel Geddes
- Picture of the Electrolux Model 30 by Lurelle Van Arsdale
- Good article on Norman Bel Geddes' mechanical horse race and his War Game
- Original color documentary by General Motors on the 1939 Futurama exhibit. Ride footage commences at minute 8:00
- Good brief video summarising Norman Bel Geddes' career
- Catalogue of 1934 MOMA exhibition "Machine Art"
- Book, Marshall, "Machine Art 1934", University of Chicago Press, 2012
- MOMA diagram shown progression of modern art 1890-1935
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