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The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies

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In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived--bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines--eating, keeping warm, taking out the trash--meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. In "Populuxe," a "textbook of consumerism in the Push Button Age" , Thomas Hine scrutinized the looks and life of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing the hopes and fears expressed in that era's design. In the same way, "The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together in the Seventies "maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that shaped our lives. Hine gets into the shoes and heads of those who experienced the seventies--exploring their homes, feeling the beat of their music, and scanning the ads that incited their desires. But "The Great Funk "is more than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture: it's a smart, informed, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of the man "House & Garden "called "America's sharpest design critic."

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: November 13, 2007

ISBN: 0374148392

ISBN 13: 9780374148393

The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies

3.7/5 ( ratings)

In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived--bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines--eating, keeping warm, taking out the trash--meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. In "Populuxe," a "textbook of consumerism in the Push Button Age" , Thomas Hine scrutinized the looks and life of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing the hopes and fears expressed in that era's design. In the same way, "The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together in the Seventies "maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that shaped our lives. Hine gets into the shoes and heads of those who experienced the seventies--exploring their homes, feeling the beat of their music, and scanning the ads that incited their desires. But "The Great Funk "is more than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture: it's a smart, informed, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of the man "House & Garden "called "America's sharpest design critic."

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: November 13, 2007

ISBN: 0374148392

ISBN 13: 9780374148393

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