Bringing Modernity Home - Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture (Hardcover)

Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post second world war period through a series of thought-provoking accounts of developments in modern design history. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war while the state and production considerations held sway at a time when consumers 'couldn't afford taste'. The case studies of so-called frivolous items like the cocktail cabinet, the tufted carpet, and the rise of DIY in the working class homes of the 'new towns' gives a flavour of the excitement and thrill they afforded designers, makers and consumers after the harsh deprivations of the war. Collection of key essays.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Design and Material Culture
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	2007
Index compiled by:	Martin Hargreaves
Authors:	Judy Attfield
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6326-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	0-7190-6326-4
Barcode:	9780719063268

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