Jeffrey Meikle
Jeffrey Meikle is an American cultural historian and historian of design, and a Professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs of the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for two studies of American material culture: Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939 (1982), and American Plastic: A Cultural History (1997). He is generally credited as one of the founders of the discipline of design history; his essay, "Ghosts in the Machine: Why It's Hard to Write about Design," published in 2005, lays out some of the central issues confronting the field.[1]
Partial bibliography
- Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
- American Plastic: A Cultural History.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
- Design in the USA. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- (editor, with Miles Orvell), Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture.Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009.
References
- ↑ Jeffrey Meikle, "Ghosts in the Machine: Why It's Hard to Write about Design," Technology and Culture, Volume 46, Number 2, April 2005, pp. 385-392
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