TY - BOOK AU - Maguire,Patrick J. AU - Woodham,Jonathan M. TI - Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain: the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 SN - 0718501411 AV - T183.G72 D47 1997 U1 - 745.20941 PY - 1997/// CY - London, Washington PB - Leicester University Press KW - Industrial design KW - Great Britain KW - Exhibitions KW - History N1 - 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 ER -