“A dazzling and stylish journey through the art and culture of the jet age. EDWARD DIMENDBERG, University of California, Irvine “Gracefully written, engagingly narrated, and accompanied by brilliantly selected images, this is a book that anyone interested in the post-WWII world can read with pleasure and profit.” WOLFGANG SCHIVELBUSCH, author of The Railway Journey “Vanessa Schwartz's archaeology of the jet age has taught me that the railway journey of the nineteenth century was not the last word but rather the beginning of a new story.” MITCHELL, author of What Do Pictures Want? “ Jet Age Aesthetic is a landmark achievement, laying the foundation for a new kind of critical history of the present.” FRED TURNER author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties In this visually delicious study, Vanessa Schwartz returns to a time just before our own, when all that was solid took to the air and the future became as weightless as a cloud out the window. “Decades before the Internet, there was the Jet Age. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT JET AGE AESTHETIC: The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the "jet set," and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Watch the companion video produced by University if Southern CaliforniaĪ stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motionīuy it on Yale's site (use discount code YAB89)
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