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Twentieth Century Design

by Jonathan M. Woodham
$18.20
Twentieth Century Design - Thryft
Twentieth Century Design - Thryft
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Twentieth Century Design

by Jonathan M. Woodham
$18.20
ISBN: 9780192842046
Authors: Jonathan M. Woodham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date of Publication: 1997-05-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, History
Related Topics: Design
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 88 readers)

Description

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians, Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, he explores themes such as national identity, the "Americanization" of ideology and business methods, the rise of multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. Woodham sets the proliferation of everyday design against the writing of critics as diverse as Nikolaus Pevsner, the champion of Modernism, and Vance Packard, author of The Hidden Persuaders . The history which emerges is clearly seen for what it is: the powerful and complex expression ofaesthetic, social, economic, political, and technological forces.
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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.