Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 6 (part 5/5)

"Steamlines and Breadlines"

link below to playlist of all "American Vision" episodes:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF4A4CCB9DB13FEF

segment on styling, streamline and car design is continued.

"The ideal American form was a tear drop with fins - and it gave you toasters and pencil sharperners that looked as if they were ready to blast off your desk and go out thru the front door at 600 miles an hour. They said 'escape with us to utopia'".

design and marketing message in everyday objects

a long visit with a Cord 8/10 "Nowhere else did streamlining get such a cosmetic push as in this rolling sculpture" (designer Gordon M. Buehrig's 810 and the Supercharged 812)

clips of the 1939 New York World's Fair (motto: "Tomorrow, Now")

interview, at the dilapidated old site of the World's Fair, with art historian Robert Rosenblum....he speaks of Billy Roses' aquacade, and some color film clips are shown of it...go here to view more color footage from the aquacade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3z6K1j83w

originally aired on US television in 1997

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Robert-Hughes
• American-Visions
• Art-History
• Cord-810
• 1939-New-York-World's-Fair
• Billy-Roses-aquacade

[blaniadoromero]

so wonderful to be able to hear and see great robert rosenblum again. true music to my ears and soul!!!