Looking Back: The American Dream Through Immigrant Eyes, 1907-1918

By Marie Jastrow

In today's design, the role played by folding techniques has gained in visibility and polyvalence, as this book perfectly illustrates, showing designs by creators all around the world, using diverse materials (paper, plastic, textiles) applied to very different areas of creation, such as fashion, jewelry or interior design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393023486
• ISBN13: 9780393023480
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Readers Library
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 0.1" x 0.6"

Customer Reviews

first person view of the turn of immigrant experience

I looked at this book as a supplement for an Honors Seminar examining the idea of "happiness." As part of our course, we examined cultural notions of happiness, specifically, "the American Dream." This book provided an easy to read narrative illuminating the idea of the "dream" from outside the borders. I particularly liked the wonderful photographs. These make real the turn of the century America that many immigrants found.