I'm So Happy: A Picture-Perfect Adventure Story - Softcover

Marvin Heiferman; Carole Kismaric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679720952 ISBN 13: 9780679720959

Publisher: Vintage, 1990

Synopsis

Uses advertising photographs to satirize the differences between reality and the promises of American life from the fifties to the present

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This photo album is a clever, tongue-in-cheek salute to kitsch of recent times, from the Eisenhower era to the present. A collage culled by Heiferman (coauthor of Still Life ) and Kismaric ( Forced Out: The Agony of the Refugee in Our Time ) from a mass of advertising and magazine journalism displays the indefatigable confidence of optimistic, die-hard American consumers in things . Shag bedspreads here offer a version of nirvana that will make some quail; well-wrought media images (of the laundry detergent Cheer, for example) seem invincibly persuasive, the real product rather than a mere picture of it; and money, plainly, is everything in this superabundant land. In this fantasy volume of American presidents grinning, American Dustbusters gaily conquering grit, and American crocuses burgeoning against ersatz sunsets, readers will find a life they either hated or loved, hallucinated or tried to forget.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679720952
• ISBN 13: 9780679720959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96