The Design History Reader -

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Résumé :

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
General Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei

Part One: Histories
Introduction to Part One

SECTION 1: NEW DESIGNERS 1676-1820
Introduction
1. An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2. A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design, Darron Dean
3. Of The Division of Labour, from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
4. The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-century Design, Mary Guyatt
5. Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth-century England, John Styles
Guide to Further Reading for Section 1

SECTION 2: DESIGN REFORM 1820-1910
Introduction
6. Science, Industry, and Art, Gottfried Semper
7. The Nature of Gothic, John Ruskin
8. The Ideal Book, William Morris
9. The 'American System' and Mass-Production, from Industrial Design, John Heskett
10. The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Si?cle France, Debora Silverman
11. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright
Guide to Further Reading for Section 2

SECTION 3: MODERNISMS 1908-1950
Introduction
12. Introduction to Modernism in Design, Paul Greenhalgh
13. Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos
14. Werkbund Theses and Antitheses, Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde
15. The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen, from Pioneers of Modern Design, Nikolaus Pevsner
16. From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed, Gillian Naylor
17. Ambiguously Modern: Art Deco in Latin America, Rafael Cardoso
18. The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining, Nicolas P. Maffei
Guide to Further Reading for Section 3

SECTION 4: WAR, RECOVERY, AND DECOLONIZATION 1943-1970
Introduction
19. Gandhi and Khadi, the Fabric of Indian Independence, Susan S. Bean
20. Progress through Prosthetics, Bess Williamson
21. 'Here Is the Modern World Itself': The Festival of Britain's Representations of the Future
Becky Conekin
22. Isotype in Africa: Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952-8, Eric Kindel
23. The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution
Susan E. Reid
24. All That Glitters is Not Stainless, Peter Reyner Banham
Guide to Further Reading for Section 4

SECTION 5: POSTMODERNISMS 1967-2006
Introduction
25. A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, from Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour
26. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard
27. There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design! Gert Selle
28. Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
29. What was Philippe Starck thinking of? Peter Lloyd and Dirk Snelders
30. Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Guide to Further Reading for Section 5

SECTION 6: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN 1960-2020
Introduction
31. Spaceship Earth, from Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller
32. Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the D...