{"product_id":"hmm","title":"Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Justus Nieland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames \u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eFor the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eames' modelled as they brought film into their design practice. Mid-century modernism is often considered institutionalized, but \u003ci\u003eHappiness by Design\u003c\/i\u003e casts Eames-era designers as innovative media artists, technophilic humanists, change managers, and neglected film theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHappiness by Design\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh cultural history of mid-century modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, LÁszlÓ Moholy-Nagy, and GyÖrgy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century’s exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEames-era modernism, Nieland shows, fuelled novel techniques of culture administration, spawning new partnerships between cultural and educational institutions, corporations, and the state. From the studio, showroom floor, or classroom to the stages of world fairs and international conferences, the mid-century multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their circle became key to a liberal democratic lifestyle-and also anticipated the look and feel of our networked present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"publisher-information\" class=\"pdp-spec\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57650231574908,"sku":null,"price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0332\/2039\/5140\/files\/HappinessByDesign.png?v=1791815083","url":"https:\/\/shop.theboxplymouth.com\/products\/hmm","provider":"The Box","version":"1.0","type":"link"}