The authority of everyday objects : a cultural history of West German industrial design /

From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German in...

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主要作者: Betts, Paul
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
叢編:Weimar and now ; 34.
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書本目錄:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Design, the Cold War, and West German Culture; 1. Re-Enchanting the Commodity: Nazi Modernism Reconsidered; 2. The Conscience of the Nation: The New German Werkbund; 3. The Nierentisch Nemesis: The Promise and Peril of Organic Design; 4. Design and Its Discontents: The Ulm Institute of Design; 5. Design, Liberalism, and the State: The German Design Council; 6. Coming in from the Cold: Design and Domesticity; CONCLUSION: Memory and Materialism: The Return of History as Design; Notes; Bibliography; Index.