| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Weimar and now ; 34
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Weimar and now ; 34.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-338) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial design -- Germany -- History.
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Industrial design. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Betts, Paul. Authority of everyday objects. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520240049 (DLC) 2003006429 (OCoLC)52056639 |
| ISBN |
9780520941359 (electronic book) |
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0520941357 (electronic book) |
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0520240049 |
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9780520240049 |
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128236040X |
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9781282360402 |
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