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Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 / edited by Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997Description: xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0718501411
  • 9780718501419
  • 0718500733
  • 9780718500733
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.20941
LOC classification:
  • T183.G72 D47 1997
Contents:
Introduction : politics and design in post-war Britain / Patrick J. Maguire -- Britain can make it and the history of design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Patriotism, politics and production / Patrick J. Maguire -- The politics of persuasion : state, industry and good design at the Britain can make it exhibition / Jonathan M. Woodham -- 'Fabrics for everyman and for the elite' / Mary Schoeser -- Moving forwards but looking backwards : the dynamics of design change in the early post-war pottery industry / Graham M. McLaren -- Good design by law : adapting utility furniture to peacetime production : domestic furniture in the Reconstruction Period 1946-56 / Judy Attfield -- Industrial design : aesthetic idealism and economic reality / Patrick J. Maguire -- Putting the industrial into design : early problems facing the council of industrial design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Introduction to the documents / Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham --
Locating Britain Can Make It; cultural propaganda and industrial realism; the outlook of manufacturing industry; documentation and commentary.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 745.20941 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A159166B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.

Introduction : politics and design in post-war Britain / Patrick J. Maguire -- Britain can make it and the history of design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Patriotism, politics and production / Patrick J. Maguire -- The politics of persuasion : state, industry and good design at the Britain can make it exhibition / Jonathan M. Woodham -- 'Fabrics for everyman and for the elite' / Mary Schoeser -- Moving forwards but looking backwards : the dynamics of design change in the early post-war pottery industry / Graham M. McLaren -- Good design by law : adapting utility furniture to peacetime production : domestic furniture in the Reconstruction Period 1946-56 / Judy Attfield -- Industrial design : aesthetic idealism and economic reality / Patrick J. Maguire -- Putting the industrial into design : early problems facing the council of industrial design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Introduction to the documents / Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham --

Locating Britain Can Make It; cultural propaganda and industrial realism; the outlook of manufacturing industry; documentation and commentary.

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