Chapter 12 related links

Resources

Design Museum information about individual designers
http://designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Design 1950-75
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dsgn3/hd_dsgn3.htm

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architecture and Design collection
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/architecturedesign

Cars that Changed the Automobile Industry A&E (2006), DVD

Automobile in American Life and Society, 1950s
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Overview/D_Overview4.htm

Cadillacs in the 1950s
http://100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1950/cad50s.htm

General Motors Archive Images
http://www.gmphotostore.com/

Official General Motors Motorama film, 1961
http://www.archive.org/details/TouchofM1961

General Motors Motorama, 1954
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRmlDhaiYJc&feature=channel

Harley Earl – GM Designer Extraordinaire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYY9GUrrkds&feature=channel

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Christian Dior
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dior/hd_dior.htm
Cristobel Balenciaga
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bale/hd_bale.htm

The Golden Age of Couture: Parisand London1947-1957, exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007-2008
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/index.php

David Halberstam’s The Fifties. Volume 2: Selling the American Way, A&E Home Video (1997), VHS

Suburbinization of America: The Rise of Patio Culture
http://www.patioculture.net/paper.html

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html