In this ambitious book, Terry Smith chronicles the modernist revolution
in American art and design between the world wars-from its origins in
the new industrial age of mass production, automation, and corporate
culture to its powerful and transforming effects on the way Americans
came to see themselves and their world. From Ford Motor's first assembly
line in 1913 to the New York World's Fair of 1939, Smith traces the
evolution of visual imagery in the first half of America's century of
progress.