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Modernism in design / edited by Paul Greenhalgh.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-152802

Description

viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Design History 20th century.
Modernism (Art)

Originator

Greenhalgh, Paul.

Contents

The legacy of the nineteenth century / Clive Wainwright -- The myth of function / Tim Benton -- The struggles within French furniture, 1900-1930 / Paul Greenhalgh -- The cultural politics of the German modernist interior / Martin Gaughan -- Building utopia : pioneer modernism on the American West coast / Wendy Kaplan -- 'Design in everyday things' : promoting modernism in Britain, 1912-1944 / Julian Holder -- Henri Van de Velde and the struggle of Belgian modernism between the wars / Mimi Wilms -- Swedish grace ... or the acceptable face of modernism? / Gillian Naylor -- 'A home for everybody?' : design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-1972 / Penny Sparke -- Radical modernism in contemporary Spanish design / Guy Julier.

Publication

London : Reaktion Books

Publisher Series

Critical views

Description

viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-244) and index.
Rodris Roth Library.

ISBN

0948462124
0948462116 (pbk)

Call Number

Roth/Coll. NK1390.M57 1990

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