Ebook: The design history reader
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Berg Publishers
- City: Oxford ; New York
- Language: English
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"This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualized understanding of the role of design and designed objects within social and cultural history. Extracts range from the 18th century, when design and manufacture separated, to the present day. Drawn from scholarly and polemical books, research articles, exhibition catalogues, and Read more...
Part I: Histories: --
New Designers, 1676-1820 --
Design Reform, 1820-1910 --
Modernisms, 1908-50 --
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, Negotiations --
Gender and Design --
Consumption --
Mediation --
Local, Regional, National, Global.