Bel Geddes: American Design Visionary
- Submitting institution
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Norwich University of the Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- NUA-NM-03
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781474284608
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781474284578
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Created and Contested Territories
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book extends Maffei’s PhD research (Royal College of Art) and is based on over 10 years of archival research, including extensive use of the Norman Bel Geddes Papers, University of Texas, Austin and the Hagley Museum and Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Collection, Delaware.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Maffei was invited to write the monograph for the Bloomsbury Cultural Histories of Design series. The book explores how Geddes’s applied modernist design, a visionary outlook and popular appeal to shape the industrial design profession and the public image of the designer. In addition, it makes a unique contribution to design history in its recognition of the role of Theosophy and Christian Science in the development of Geddes’s design ethos and visionary design and thus the foundation of American design. It was reviewed in the leading journal for the field of design history, The Journal of Design History, November 2018.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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