Title: Populuxe: The look and life of America in the '50's and 60's,
The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America's great shop-
ping sprees. Never before were there so many people able to
acquire so many things, and never before was there such a choice.
Thomas Hine calls it Populuxe--populism and popularity and luxury,
plus a totally unnecessary "e" to give it a little class; the word
itself is as synthetic as the world it denotes. With the help of more
than 250 amazing and amusing pictures in black and white and color
(and what colors!), Thomas Hine explores, recaptures and explains
this glorious, vanished world of hopes and dreams and cock-eyed
optimism. His book is both a celebration of a singular (and slightly
bizarre) aesthetic and a revelation of America's not-so-distant past.
By: Thomas Hine
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
ISBN: 0-394-74014-9, first paperback edition
Copyright: 1987
Size/Format: 10 1/4" x 8 1/4", softcover, 184 pages.
Condition: Very Good. Clean & quite crisp pages, pen marking on
flyleaf, no other markings. Cover shelf wear, one small indent on
front cover, no spine crease.
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