Title & Author:

Cold War Modern : design 1945-1970 / edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt.

Publication:

London : V & A Publishing, 2008.

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 25 x 25 cm

Notes:
Catalog of Exhibition: Cold War Modern: design 1945-1970 V&A 25 September 2008 - 11 January 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-302) and index.
1. Introduction / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : From monuments to fast cars: aspects of cold war art, 1946-1957 / Sarah Wilson ; Modernism between peace and freedom: Picasso and others at the Congress of Intellectuals in Wrocław, 1948 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- 2. Europe reconstructed, Europe divided / David Crowley : Marshall Plan modernism in divided Germany / Greg Castillo -- 3. Design and the democratic ideal / Jane Pavitt : Cold war front lines: the architecture of defence / Caroline Maniaque -- 4. The bomb in the brain / Jane Pavitt ; War games: cold war Britain in film and fiction / Barry Curtis -- 5. Thaw modern: design in Eastern Europe after 1956 / David Crowley : 'Our kitchen is just as good': Soviet responses to the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- 6. The hi-tech cold war / Jane Pavitt and David Crowley : Imagining the computer: Eliot Noyes, the Eames and the IBM Pavilion / John Harwood ; Expo '70 as watershed: the politics of American art and technology / Anne Collins Goodyear -- 7. In the image of revolution / David Crowley : Protest by design: Giancarlo de Carlo and the 14th Milan Triennale / Paola Nicolin ; The personal visions and public spaces of the Movement Group (Dvizhenie) / Jane A. Sharp ; Architecture or revolution? Vienna's 1968 / Jana Scholze -- 8. Looking down on spaceship earth: cold war landscapes / David Crowley.
British Book Design and Production Awards 2009: Shortlisted, Exhibition catalogues.

Summary:

"Modern life after 1945 seemed to promise both utopia and catastrophe. Both could, it seemed, be achieved at the 'push of a button'. Published to accompany a major V & A exhibition, 'Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970', this book explores how the politics of the Cold War shaped architecture and design. Reassessing 'classic' designs and introducing many little-known objects."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9781851775439 (cased)
1851775439 (cased)
1851775706 (pbk.)
9781851775705 (pbk.)

Subject:

Design Political aspects.
Design History 20th century.
Design Aspect politique.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Design
Ost-West-Konflikt
Vormgeving.
Koude Oorlog.
Ausstellung
Geschichte 1945-1970

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Exhibition catalogs.
History

Added entries:

Crowley, David, 1966- editor.
Pavitt, Jane, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260840
Call No.: BIB 191753
Status: Available