Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 319 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520240049
,
0520941357
,
128236040X
,
1417544996
,
9780520240049
,
9780520941359
,
9781282360402
,
9781417544998
Serie:
Weimar and now 34
Inhalt:
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 industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-338) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Betts, Paul Authority of everyday objects Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Betts, Paul 1963-
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