The Harry Ransom Center presents the exhibition “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” which explores the career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958).
Running from Sept. 11, 2012, to Jan. 6, 2013, the exhibition includes work from more than 60 of Bel Geddes’ projects, including materials relating to “Futurama,” Bel Geddes’ 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair installation for General Motors.
The exhibition reflects the broad range of Bel Geddes’ interests and work and demonstrates how he shaped and continues to influence American culture and lifestyle. A polymath who had little academic or professional training in the areas he mastered, Bel Geddes had the ability to look at trends and the contemporary environment and envision how they could affect and alter the future.
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