Nonie gadsden biography of george

By Mark Favermann

America Goes Modern does splendid justice to the genesis of a miraculous design phenomenon.

America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy.

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 190 pages, 110 Color illustrations, 2022.

“Object poetry” is a term for looking at physical objects from a lyrical perspective. It comes from the German word dinggedicht — “thing poem,” a literary genre that is about making the mundane magnificent, the practical elegant enough to be worthy of grace.

At its best, this artistic approach calls for a fresh look at what seems to be an ordinary thing, or it may transform an extraordinary object into something familiar.

Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nonie Gadsden powerfully celebrates visual “object poetry” in her wonderfully illustrated and narrated new book, A