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British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Fiona Fisher
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Description for British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948
Paperback. Editor(s): Breward, Christopher; Fisher, Fiona; Wood, Ghislaine. Num Pages: 240 pages, 49 bw and 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; ACXJ; AKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 321 x 244 x 14. Weight in Grams: 516.
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport. The contributors address significant moments ... Read more
British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport. The contributors address significant moments ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472505378
SKU
V9781472505378
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Ref
99-10
About Fiona Fisher
Christopher Breward is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh and Principal of Edinburgh College of Art, both UK. Fiona Fisher is a researcher in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, UK. Ghislaine Wood is Deputy Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of ... Read more
Reviews for British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948
This compact volume represents good value for money with many fresh ideas and perceptive overviews. As a handbook of ideas about the history of British design from the post-war years to the 2010s, it is useful and thought provoking and gathers together leading experts, emerging and established researchers and polemicists.
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