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The design history reader / edited by Grace Lees-Maffei and Rebecca Houze.

Contributor(s): Lees-Maffei, Grace | Houze, RebeccaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Berg, 2010Description: xii, 546 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781847883889 (hbk.) :; 1847883885 (hbk.) :; 9781847883896 (pbk.) :; 1847883893 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Design -- HistoryDDC classification: 745.4'09
Contents:
Part I Histories: New designers, 1676-1820 - Design reform 1820-1910 - Modernisms, 1908-1950 - War/Post-war/Cold War, 1943-70 - Postmodernisms, 1967-2006 - Sustainable futures, 1960-2003. Part II Methods and themes: Foundations, debates, historiography, 1980-95 - Objects, subjects and negotiations - Gender and design - Consumption - Mediation - Local/regional/national/global.
Summary: Drawn from scholarly and polemical books, research articles, exhibition catalogues and magazines, this text provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline and contemporary issues in design history and practice. The history spans the late 17th to the 21st centuries.
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Includes bibliography (p. [522]-533) and index.

Part I Histories: New designers, 1676-1820 - Design reform 1820-1910 - Modernisms, 1908-1950 - War/Post-war/Cold War, 1943-70 - Postmodernisms, 1967-2006 - Sustainable futures, 1960-2003. Part II Methods and themes: Foundations, debates, historiography, 1980-95 - Objects, subjects and negotiations - Gender and design - Consumption - Mediation - Local/regional/national/global.

Drawn from scholarly and polemical books, research articles, exhibition catalogues and magazines, this text provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline and contemporary issues in design history and practice. The history spans the late 17th to the 21st centuries.

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