Designing modern Britain / Cheryl Buckley.
Cheryl Buckley examines the culture as well as the products of design in Britain. She explores questions of national identity, regional variations, and the notions of 'Britishness' in a Britain that has been transformed from leading an empire to a modern multicultural society.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Reaktion,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Art & Architecture Complete |
Table of Contents:
- Modernity and tradition: late Victorian and Edwardian design
- 'Englishness' and identity: design in early twentieth-century Britain
- 'Going modern, but staying British': design and modernisms, 1930 to 1950
- Designing the 'Detergent Age': design in the 1950s and'60s
- The ambiguities of progress: design from the late 1960s to 1980
- 'I shop therefore I am': design since the '80s.