TY - GEN AU - Lees Maffei, Grace Ed. AU - Houze, Rebecca Ed. TI - Design history reader SN - 9781350121034 U1 - 745.409 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Bloomsburry Visual Arts N1 - Contents Acknowledgements xiii General Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 1 Part One: Histories Introduction to Part One, Rebecca Houze 9 SECTION 1: NEW DESIGNERS 1676- 1820 Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 13 1. An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 15 2. A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design, Darron Dean 22 3. Of The Division of Labour, Adam Smith 29 4. The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-Century Design, Mary Guyatt 34 5. Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth Century England, John Styles 41 Guide to Further Reading 49 SECTION 2: DESIGN REFORM 1820-1910 Introduction, Rebecca Houze 53 6. Science, Industry, and Art, Gottfried Semper 55 7. The Nature of Gothic, John Ruskin 60 8. The Ideal Book, William Morris 65 9. The 'American System' and Mass-Production from Industrial Design, John Heskett 70 10. The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France, Debora Silverman 75 11. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright 81 Guide to Further Reading 85 SECTION 3: MODERNISMS 1908-1950 Introduction, Rebecca Houze 89 12. Introduction to Modernism in Design, Paul Greenhalgh 91 13. Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos 98 14. Werkbund Theses and Antitheses, Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde 101 15. The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen from Pioneers of Modern Design, Nikolaus Pevsner 104 16. The Coloristes and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, from Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Nancy Troy 109 17. From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed, Gillian Naylor 115 18. The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining, Nicolas Maffei 120 Guide to Further Reading 127 SECTION 4: WAR/POSTWAR/COLD WAR 1943-1970 Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 131 19. Utility Furniture and the Myth of Utility 1943-1948, Matthew Denney 135 20. 'Here Is the Modern World Itself' the Festival of Britain's Representations of The Future Becky Conekin 143 21. Populuxe, Thomas Hine 152 22. The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution Susan E. Reid 158 23. All That Glitters is Not Stainless, Reyner Banham 165 Guide to Further Reading 171 SECTION 5: POSTMODERNISMS 1967-2006 Introduction, Rebecca Houze 175 24. A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour 179 25. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard 183 26. There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design!, Gert Selle 185 27. Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller 192 28. What was Philippe Starck thinking of? P. Lloyd and D. Snelders 200 29. Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 207 Guide to Further Reading 215 SECTION 6: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 1960-2003 Introduction, Rebecca Houze 219 30. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller 223 31. How to Outmode a $4,000 Vehicle in Two Years, from The Waste Makers, Vance Packard 226 32. Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the Designer, from Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek 231 33. Material Doubts and Plastic Fallout, from American Plastic, Jeffrey L. Meikle 236 34. Introduction, The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide, Joel Makower, John Elkington, and Julia Hailes 243 35. Redefining Rubbish: Commodity Disposal and Sourcing, Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe 247 36. The Hannover Principles. Design for Sustainability, William McDonough 253 Guide to Further Reading 255 Part Two: Methods and Themes Introduction to Part Two , Grace Lees-Maffei 259 SECTION 7: FOUNDATIONS, DEBATES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1980-1995 Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 263 37. Taking Stock in Design History, Fran Hannah and Tim Putnam 267 38. The State of Design History, Part I: Mapping the Field, Clive Dilnot 273 39. Design History and the History of Design, John A. Walker 279 40. Design History or Design Studies: Subject Matter and Methods, Victor Margolin 286 41. Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity, Jonathan M. Woodham 291 Guide to Further Reading 299 SECTION 8: OBJECTS, SUBJECTS AND NEGOTIATIONS Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 303 42. Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle, Dick Hebdige 307 43. The Most Cherished Objects in the Home, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton 315 44. How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Ruth Schwartz Cowan 323 45. The History of Craft, Paul Greenhalgh 329 46. Faith, Form and Finish: Shaker Furniture in Context, Jean M. Burks 336 Guide to Further Reading 343 SECTION 9: GENDER AND DESIGN Introduction, Rebecca Houze 347 47. FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male: Feminist Critiques of Design, Judy Attfield 349 48. The Architect's Wife, Introduction to As Long As Its Pink, Penny Sparke 355 49. Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration,' and the Eamses, Pat Kirkham 360 50. 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption from The Hidden Consumer, Christopher Breward 367 51. Self-Made Motormen: The Material Construction of Working-class Masculine Identities through Car Modification, Andrew Bengry-Howell and Christine Griffin 374 Guide to Further Reading 381 SECTION 10: CONSUMPTION Introduction, Rebecca Houze 385 52. The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Capital, Karl Marx 387 53. Conspicuous Consumption from The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen 391 54. Myth Today, The New Citroën, and Plastic, from Mythologies, Roland Barthes 395 55. Introduction and The Sense of Distinction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Pierre Bourdieu 402 56. 'Parties Are the Answer': The Ascent of the Tupperware Party, Alison Clarke 409 57. The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers during the 1960s, Robert E. Weems, Jr. 415 Guide to Further Reading 423 SECTION 11: MEDIATION Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 427 58. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin 429 59. Advertising, Mother of Graphic Design, Steven Heller 435 60. 'Decorators May Be Compared to Doctors' An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestions For House Decoration In Painting, Woodwork And Furniture (1876), Emma Ferry 441 61. Integrative Practice: Oral History, Dress and Disability Studies, Liz Linthicum 449 62. Introduction to Design and the Modern Magazine, Jeremy Aynsley and Kate Forde 456 Guide to Further Reading 463 SECTION 12: LOCAL/REGIONAL/NATIONAL/GLOBAL Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei 467 63. Finding Poland in the Margins: The Case of the Zakopane Style, David Crowley 471 64. Furniture Design and Colonialism: Negotiating Relationships between Britain and Australia, 1880-1901, Tracey Avery 478 65. "From Baby's First Bath:" Kaô Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design, Gennifer Weisenfeld 485 66. Land Rover and Colonial-Style Adventure, Jeanne Van Eeden 494 67. Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania, Paul B. Bick and Sorina Chiper 501 Guide to Further Reading 509 List of Illustrations 511 Notes on Contributors 513 Bibliography 521 Index 535 ER -