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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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Cyfres: | Weimar and now ;
34. |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp59q |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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.