Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home

摘要

In recent years scholars have been actively constructing a new narrative of postwar architecture in the United States, refraining the remarkably resilient architect-centered tale of transplanted European modernism and replacing it with a more complex account that addresses a much broader cast of characters, contexts, and methods of influence and design. Monica Penick's Tastemaker is an important contribution to this rereading and rewriting of American architectural and cultural history, broadening both the discussion and the dramatis personae.~1