Metamuseum

Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum.

Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. Loosely grouped by themes, these works will culminate with a final survey of American design, and so the Tumblr serves as an experiment to see if any “American aesthetic” will arise, and if it does, what shape will it take?

Metamuseum is part of
After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 at the Museum of Arts and Design
Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum.

Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. Loosely grouped by themes, these works will culminate with a final survey of American design, and so the Tumblr serves as an experiment to see if any “American aesthetic” will arise, and if it does, what shape will it take?

Metamuseum is part of
After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 at the Museum of Arts and Design
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  • George C. Blickensderfer, American, 1850-1917, Model 6 portable typewriter, c. 1906, aluminum, steel, copper, Manufactured by Blickensderfer Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Connecticut, The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota 98.276.279.1  When George C. Blickensderfer unveiled his Model 5 at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, it caught the imagination of Americans and Europeans alike with its ingeniously simple design. The world’s first truly portable typewriter, it used a rotating type wheel, which allowed for a speedy change in typeface, and contained about 250 parts – a tenth of the parts that made up its desktop contemporaries. Blickensderfer would present an even lighter take on the Model 5 in 1906: the Model 6, a lightweight typewriter manufactured exclusively in aluminum. Dubbed the “Five-Pound Private Secretary,” the Model 6 was portable and durable; the company touted it in advertisements as being, “in every way, a high class machine.”   Jennifer Komar Olivarez Associate Curator, Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture Minneapolis Institute of Artshttp://artsmia.org/

    George C. Blickensderfer, American, 1850-1917, Model 6 portable typewriter, c. 1906, aluminum, steel, copper, Manufactured by Blickensderfer Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Connecticut, The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota 98.276.279.1 

    When George C. Blickensderfer unveiled his Model 5 at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, it caught the imagination of Americans and Europeans alike with its ingeniously simple design.

    The world’s first truly portable typewriter, it used a rotating type wheel, which allowed for a speedy change in typeface, and contained about 250 parts – a tenth of the parts that made up its desktop contemporaries.

    Blickensderfer would present an even lighter take on the Model 5 in 1906: the Model 6, a lightweight typewriter manufactured exclusively in aluminum. Dubbed the “Five-Pound Private Secretary,” the Model 6 was portable and durable; the company touted it in advertisements as being, “in every way, a high class machine.”

     

    Jennifer Komar Olivarez

    Associate Curator, Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    http://artsmia.org/

    • March 5, 2013 (10:02 am)
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