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