| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Weimar and now ; 34 |
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Weimar and now ; 34.
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| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Design, the Cold War, and West German Culture; 1. Re-Enchanting the Commodity: Nazi Modernism Reconsidered; 2. The Conscience of the Nation: The New German Werkbund; 3. The Nierentisch Nemesis: The Promise and Peril of Organic Design; 4. Design and Its Discontents: The Ulm Institute of Design; 5. Design, Liberalism, and the State: The German Design Council; 6. Coming in from the Cold: Design and Domesticity; CONCLUSION: Memory and Materialism: The Return of History as Design; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-338) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrial design -- Germany -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Design -- General.
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DESIGN -- Industrial.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Industrial design
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003006429 |
| ISBN |
9780520941359 |
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0520941357 |
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1417544996 |
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9781417544998 |
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159734477X |
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9781597344777 |
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