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.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997Description: xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0718501411
- 9780718501419
- 0718500733
- 9780718500733
- 745.20941
- T183.G72 D47 1997
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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