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Kaplan, Wendy & Wolfsonian Foundation Designing Modernity The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945
Thames & Hudson 1995 0500237069 / 9780500237069 Not First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Title Designing modernity : the arts of reform and persuasion, 1885-1945 : selections from the Wolfsonian / edited by Wendy Kaplan. Publisher New York, New York : Thames & Hudson ; [Miami Beach, Fla. ] : Wolfsonian Foundation, 1995.Description 352 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Note Issued in conjunction with an exhibition to be held at the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, Nov. 11, 1995-April 28, 1996; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 21-Sept. 22, 1996; Seattle Art Museum, Oct. 24, 1996-Jan. 12, 1997; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Feb. 22-May 18, 1997.Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Director’s Preface / Peggy Loar -- Traditions Transformed: Romantic Nationalism in Design, 1890-1920 / Wendy Kaplan -- Germany Design and National Identity, 1890-1918 / Laurie A. Stein and Irmela Franzke -- The Decorative Arts in Amsterdam, 1890-1930 / Ellinoor Bergvelt -- The English Compromise: Modern Design and National Consciousness, 1870-1940 / Paul Greenhalgh -- Domesticating Modernity: Ambivalence and Appropriation, 1920-1940 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Forging Modern Italy: From Wrought Iron to Aluminum / Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino -- A "Return to Order": Issues of the Vernacular and the Classical in Italian Inter-War Design / Marianne Lamonaca -- Political Things: Design in Fascist Italy / Dennis P. Doordan -- Design in Inter-War Germany / John Heskett -- Emblems of Production: Workers in German, Italian, and American Art during the 1930s / Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. ; 28 cm; 352 pages; One of the critical formative influences of the 20th century has been the response to modernity. In the struggle between modern and anti-modern forces, between progressiveness and reaction, design has been a key element in the service of reform movements and as an agent of propaganda. Written by leading social and art historians, this book is published to accompany a travelling exhibition organized by the Wolfsonian, a Miami institution dedicated to examining the social, political and aesthetic significance of objects produced between 1885 and 1945. With hundreds of photographs of the Wolfsonian's collection of objects - posters, books, furniture and ceramics - it shows how design has been a vital tool in acclimatizing people to life in the modern world, examining the different ways that political, industrial and cultural leaders throughout Europe and America have used design in their programmes of reform, in their efforts to shape public opinion and the forge a sense of national identity.
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