Main entry:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Title & Author:

Italy: the new domestic landscape; achievements and problems of Italian design. Edited by Emilio Ambasz.

Publication:

New York; Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn. [1972]

Description:

430 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
Exhibition shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 26 to Sept. 11, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Emilio Ambasz -- Objects. Objects selected for their formal and technical means ; Objects selected for their sociocultural implications ; Objects selected for their implications of more flexible patterns of use and arrangement -- Environments. Introduction ; Design program ; Design as postulation: Gae Aulenti ; Ettore Sottsass, Jr. ; Joe Colombo ; Alberto Rosselli ; Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper ; Mario Bellini -- Design as commentary: Gaetano Pesce -- Counterdesign as postulation: Ugo la Pietra ; Archizoom ; Superstudio ; Gruppo Strum ; Enzo Mari -- Winners of the competition for young designers: Gianantonio Mari ; Group 9999 -- Historical articles. Introduction ; Art Nouveau in Italy / Paolo Portoghesi ; The Futurist construction of the universe / Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco ; The beginning of modern research, 1930-1940 / Leonardo Benevolo ; Italian design 1945-1971 / Vittorio Gregotti -- Critical articles. Introduction ; Italian design in relation to social and economic planning / Ruggero Cominotti ; Housing policy and the goals of design in Italy / Italo Insolera ; Ideological development in the thought and imagery of Italian design / Giulio Carlo Argan ; The land of good design / Alessandro Mendini ; Radical architecture / Germano Celant ; Design and technological utopia / Manfredo Tafuri ; A design for new behaviors / Filiberto Menna -- Summary / Emilio Ambasz.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0870703943
9780870703942
0870703935 (pbk.)
9780870703935 (pbk.)

Subject:

Industrial design Italy.
Design Italie.
Industrial design
Italy

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Exhibition catalogs New York (State) New York 1972.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Ambasz, Emilio, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 59497
Call No.: 6994
Status: Available