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John Vassos
What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their success. This is Vassos's legacy-shaping the way we interact with our media technologies. Other industrial designers may be more celebrated, but none were more focused on making radio and television attractive and accessible to millions of Americans.
InJohn Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life,Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of RCA's key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. Vassos conceived a vision for the look of new technologies still with us today. A founder of the Industrial Designers Society of America, he was instrumental in the development of a self-conscious industrial design profession during the late 1920s and 1930s and into the postwar period. Drawing on unpublished records and correspondence, Shapiro creates a portrait of a designer whose early artistic work in books likePhobiaandContempocritiqued the commercialization of modern life but whose later design work sought to accommodate it.
Replete with rich behind-the-product stories of America's design culture in the 1930s through the 1950s, this volume also chronicles the emergence of what was to become the nation's largest media company and provides a fascinating glimpse into its early corporate culture. In our current era of watching TV on an iPod or a smartphone, Shapiro stimulates broad discussions of the meaning of technological design for mass media in daily life.
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Garth Williams, American illustrator : a life
This is a biography of Garth Williams as an artist and illustrator, of how his journey led him from sculpture awards at the Royal College of Art to capturing the epitome of frontier life in the West, or etching humanity into beloved animal characters. The biography also explores the historical context that affected Williams' life and art, whether in the Old World or fostering cultural expression in the New.
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Pauline Boutal
For her contribution to the French culture and theatre in Canada, Pauline Boutal was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the Order of Canada. This English translation of Louise Duguay's award-winning biography shares the story of an important artist who lived an exceptional life.
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Helen Oxenbury : a life in illustration
\"Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life -- from her early childhood through a career in children's books that started in the 1960s and is still going strong today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The pura belpré awards
Since 1996, the biennial Pura Belpré Awards have celebrated Latino culture, writers, and illustrators. Librarians seeking great books for children and young people, while serving the growing needs of a young Hispanic population, will find the best among these award-winners. The Pura Belpré Awards are named in honor of the New York Public Library’s 1920s children’s librarian, storyteller, puppeteer, and folklorist, Puerto-Rican born Pura Theresa Belpré. A brief history explains the significance of Pura Belpré, her work, and the partnership that launched this honor for Latino children’s literature.
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Brian Selznick
This book briefly examines the life and career of children's illustrator Brian Selznick.
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Chrysalis
Before Darwin, before Humboldt, before Gilbert White, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Europe to the New World on an expedition to study metamorphosis. It was an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less a woman. When she returned she produced a book that secured her reputation but her accomplishments were later dismissed and forgotten when scientists feared that they would be discredited if they built on the work of 'amateurs.' Beautifully written and illustrated, 'Chrysalis' restores Merian to her rightful place amongst those scientists who have changed the way we view the world. Kim Todd brings to life an amazing seventeenth-century woman whose boldness and vision would still be exceptional today.'An extraordinary portrait of an artist and amateur naturalist who explored the teeming life of the Amazon and helped lay the groundwork for our present-day understanding of ecology...With a detective's eye, Todd has pieced together the life of this neglected genius who charted the micro-world of insects...A breathtaking example of scholarship and storytelling, enriched by ample illustrations of Merian's work.' Starred review, Kirkus'Merian's collections and drawings from Surinam were a significant contribution to the study of the region's flora and fauna; Linnaaeus drew on them for his great catalogue of living things. Her careful observations on life histories, parasitoids and insect-plant relations and the use she made of the knowledge of the indigenous people were ahead of their time.' Times Literary SupplementRedeeming the reputation of yet another underrated European woman, Kim Todd writes lucidly, and with historic and scientific accuracy, about the life of Maria Merian who, as an explorer and natural scientist, preceded Darwin, Humboldt and Audubon. -Iain Finlayson, The Times.
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Mo Willems
Introduces readers to Mo Willems, author and illustrator of the incredibly popular Knuffle Bunny books.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel
Dr Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children adults for decades. As Donald Pease shows in this biography, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resemblance to the zigzag plot lines of his books.
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