メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 9月29日 02時46分

🎶 "Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio"🎶 — Lana Del Rey

While small, sleek smartphones dominate the audio scene today, in the 1940s, newly invented home radio receivers offered industrial designers an opportunity to package unattractive masses of electronic components into the streamlined style that defined American design throughout the 1930s and early ‘40s.

Norman Bel Geddes, one of the founders of the streamlined aesthetic, designed his iconic “Patriot” radio for Emerson Radio Corporation, a leading manufacturer of portable and tabletop radios, around 1940.

With its star-engraved knobs, row of horizontal stripes, and red, white, and blue color scheme, “Patriot” captures the convergence of nationalism, technological advancement, and consumerism that marked the era.

On view in the exhibition "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s," this radio can be seen alongside more than 100 works from The Met collection and several lenders that explore how artists in the 1930s expressed political messages and ideologies through a range of media—from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to film, dance, decorative arts, fashion, and ephemera.

P.S. Are you a teacher? 📣 Join Met educators and curators in a three-part virtual workshop series that considers parallels between artistic representations of American-ness in the 1930s and today. Tap the link in the bio for more.

🎨 Norman Bel Geddes (American, 1893–1958), designer. Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp., New York, manufacturer. "Patriot," 1940. Catalin. @metdrawingsandprints @metmodern

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