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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Norwich University of the Arts
Transforming the Audience: Theatricality in the Designs of Norman Bel Geddes, 1914-1939
The chapter evolved out of Maffei’s contribution to conferences and symposia including ‘Contradictory Modernism: Theosophy and the Designs of Norman Bel Geddes’ at the 'Enchanting Modernity: Theosophy and the Arts in the Making of Early Twentieth Century Culture' symposium, Liverpool Hope University, December 2010; and ‘Practical Visionary: Norman Bel Geddes and the design rhetoric of 1930s America’ at the 'American ImageText' conference, University of East Anglia, June 2011. Critical dialogues initiated by Maffei at 'Enchanting Modernity' were revisited in an international context in the 'Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy and the Arts in the Modern World' symposium convened by the University of Amsterdam, September 2013.
