Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 / edited by Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham.

Title & Author:

Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 / edited by Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham.

Publication:

London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997.

Description:

xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
Introduction : politics and design in post-war Britain / Patrick J. Maguire -- Britain can make it and the history of design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Patriotism, politics and production / Patrick J. Maguire -- The politics of persuasion : state, industry and good design at the Britain can make it exhibition / Jonathan M. Woodham -- 'Fabrics for everyman and for the elite' / Mary Schoeser -- Moving forwards but looking backwards : the dynamics of design change in the early post-war pottery industry / Graham M. McLaren -- Good design by law : adapting utility furniture to peacetime production : domestic furniture in the Reconstruction Period 1946-56 / Judy Attfield -- Industrial design : aesthetic idealism and economic reality / Patrick J. Maguire -- Putting the industrial into design : early problems facing the council of industrial design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Introduction to the documents / Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham.

ISBN:

0718500733 (hc)
9780718500733 (hc)
0718501411 (pbk.)
9780718501419 (pbk.)

Subject:

Britain Can Make It (Exhibition) (1946)
Industrial design Great Britain Exhibitions.
Industrial design Great Britain History.
Design Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Design Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Industrial design.
Industriedesign
Kulturpolitik
Aufsatzsammlung
Industriële vormgeving.
Tentoonstellingen.
Design industriel Grande-Bretagne Catalogues d'exposition.
Design industriel Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Maguire, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1950-
Woodham, Jonathan M.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213798
Call No.: T702 .B1 1997
Status: Available

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