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The Art of Objects : The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (326 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781487516109
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Art of ObjectsDDC classification:
  • 338.40945
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 At the Origin of Italian Industrialism -- 2 Timepieces and Italian Modern Times -- 3 Industrial Photographs and the Fictional Vision -- 4 Bicycles and the Moving Body of the Nation -- 5 Gramophones, Radio, and the New Languages of Sound -- 6 Cigarettes and Smoke: The Modern Lightness of Being -- 7 Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play -- 8 The Industrial Laboratory of Italian Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Colour plates follow page 180.
Summary: The Art of Objectsexplores the experimental encounter of arts and industry in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the origins of the Italian culture of design in the social and aesthetic construction of the age's most iconic industrial objects.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 At the Origin of Italian Industrialism -- 2 Timepieces and Italian Modern Times -- 3 Industrial Photographs and the Fictional Vision -- 4 Bicycles and the Moving Body of the Nation -- 5 Gramophones, Radio, and the New Languages of Sound -- 6 Cigarettes and Smoke: The Modern Lightness of Being -- 7 Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play -- 8 The Industrial Laboratory of Italian Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Colour plates follow page 180.

The Art of Objectsexplores the experimental encounter of arts and industry in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the origins of the Italian culture of design in the social and aesthetic construction of the age's most iconic industrial objects.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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