The design history reader / edited by Grace Lees-Maffei and Rebecca Houze.

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2010.Edition: English edDescription: xii, 546 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781847883896 (pbk.)
1847883893 (pbk.)

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745.4 MAF

Summary: This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualised 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 magazines, the extracts are placed in themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with an annotated guide to further reading. Covering both primary texts (such as the writings of designers and design reformers) and secondary texts (in the form of key works of design history), the reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice. Selected authors: Judy Attfield, Jeremy Aynsley, Rayner Banham, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Christopher Breward, Denise Scott Brown, Ruth Schwarz Cowan, Clive Dilnot, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Greenhalgh, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, John Heskett, Pat Kirkham, Adolf Loos, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Jeffrey Meikle, William Morris, Gillian Naylor, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Ruskin, Adam Smith, Penny Sparke, John Styles, Nancy Troy, Thorstein Veblen, Robert Venturi, John Walker, Frank Lloyd Wright--Provided by publisher.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualised 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 magazines, the extracts are placed in themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with an annotated guide to further reading.

Covering both primary texts (such as the writings of designers and design reformers) and secondary texts (in the form of key works of design history), the reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice.

Selected authors: Judy Attfield, Jeremy Aynsley, Reyner Banham, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Christopher Breward, Denise Scott Brown, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Clive Dilnot, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Greenhalgh, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, John Heskett, Pat Kirkham, Adolf Loos, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Jeffrey Meikle, William Morris, Gillian Naylor, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Ruskin, Adam Smith, Penny Sparke, John Styles, Nancy Troy, Thorstein Veblen, Robert Venturi, John Walker, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualised 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 magazines, the extracts are placed in themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with an annotated guide to further reading. Covering both primary texts (such as the writings of designers and design reformers) and secondary texts (in the form of key works of design history), the reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice. Selected authors: Judy Attfield, Jeremy Aynsley, Rayner Banham, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Christopher Breward, Denise Scott Brown, Ruth Schwarz Cowan, Clive Dilnot, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Greenhalgh, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, John Heskett, Pat Kirkham, Adolf Loos, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Jeffrey Meikle, William Morris, Gillian Naylor, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Ruskin, Adam Smith, Penny Sparke, John Styles, Nancy Troy, Thorstein Veblen, Robert Venturi, John Walker, Frank Lloyd Wright--Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction
Part 1 Histories
Introduction to Part One
Section 1 New Designers 1676- 1820
Introduction
1 An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676
2 A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design
3 Of The Division of Labour
4 The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-Century Design
5 Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth Century England
Guide to Further Reading for Section 1
Section 2 Design Reform 1820-1910
Introduction
6 Science, Industry, and Art
7 The Nature of Gothic
8 The Ideal Book
9 The 'American System' and Mass-Production from Industrial Design
10 The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France
11 The Art and Craft of the Machine
Guide to Further Reading for Section 2
Section 3 Modernisms 1908-1950
Introduction
12 Introduction to Modernism in Design
13 Ornament and Crime
14 Werkbund Theses and Antitheses
15 The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen from Pioneers of Modern Design
16 The Coloristes and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, from Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France
17 From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed
18 The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining
Guide to Further Reading for Section 3
Section 4 War/Postwar/Cold War 1943-1970
Introduction
19 Utility Furniture and the Myth of Utility 1943-1948
20 'Here Is the Modern World Itself' the Festival of Britain's Representations of The Future
21 Populuxe
22 The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution
23 All That Glitters is Not Stainless
Guide to Further Reading for Section 4
Section 5 Postmodernisms 1967-2006
Introduction
24 A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas
25 The Ecstasy of Communication
26 There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design!
27 Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory
28 What was Philippe Starck thinking of?
29 Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Guide to Further Reading for Section 5
Section 6 Sustainable Futures 1960-2003
Introduction
30 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
31 How to Outmode a $4,000 Vehicle in Two Years, from The Waste Makers
32 Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the Designer, from Design for the Real World
33 Material Doubts and Plastic Fallout, from American Plastic
34 Introduction, The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide
35 Redefining Rubbish: Commodity Disposal and Sourcing
36 The Hannover Principles. Design for Sustainability
Guide to Further Reading for Section 6
Part 2 Methods and Themes
Introduction to Part Two
Section 7 Foundations, Debates, Historiography, 1980-1995
Introduction
37 Taking Stock in Design History
38 The State of Design History, Part I: Mapping the Field
39 Design History and the History of Design
40 Design History or Design Studies: Subject Matter and Methods
41 Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity
Guide to Further Reading for Section 7
Section 8 Objects, Subjects And Negotiations
Introduction
42 Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle
43 The Most Cherished Objects in the Home
44 How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum
45 The History of Craft
46 Faith, Form and Finish: Shaker Furniture in Context
Guide to Further Reading for Section 8
Section 9 Gender and Design
Introduction
47 FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male: Feminist Critiques of Design
48 The Architect's Wife, Introduction to As Long As Its Pink
49 Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration,' and the Eamses
50 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption from The Hidden Consumer
51 Self-Made Motormen: The Material Construction of Working-class Masculine Identities through Car Modification
Guide to Further Reading for Section 9
Section 10 Consumption
Introduction
52 The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Capital
53 Conspicuous Consumption from The Theory of the Leisure Class
54 Myth Today, The New Citroën, and Plastic, from Mythologies
55 Introduction and The Sense of Distinction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
56 'Parties Are the Answer': The Ascent of the Tupperware Party
57 The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers during the 1960s
Guide to Further Reading for Section 10
Section 11 Mediation
Introduction
58 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
59 Advertising, Mother of Graphic Design
60 'Decorators May Be Compared to Doctors' An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestions For House Decoration In Painting, Woodwork And Furniture (1876)
61 Integrative Practice: Oral History, Dress and Disability Studies
62 Introduction to Design and the Modern Magazine
Guide to Further Reading for Section 11
Section 12 Local/Regional/National/Global
Introduction
63 Finding Poland in the Margins: The Case of the Zakopane Style
64 Furniture Design and Colonialism: Negotiating Relationships between Britain and Australia, 1880-1901
65 "From Baby's First Bath:" Kaô Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design
66 Land Rover and Colonial-Style Adventure
67 Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania
Guide to Further Reading for Section 12
Bibliography
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Grace Lees-Maffei is Reader in Design History at the University of Hertfordshire.
Rebecca Houze is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University.