Going modern and being British : art, architecture and design in Devon c. 1910-1960 / edited by Sam Smiles.

Title & Author:

Going modern and being British : art, architecture and design in Devon c. 1910-1960 / edited by Sam Smiles.

Publication:

Exeter, England : Intellect, 1998.

Description:

156 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Refuge or regeneraton: Devon's twentieth century identity -- Architecture in Devon 1910 -- 1958 -- Dartington -- a modern adventure -- The ceramic heritage of Devon -- Illustrations -- Selected biographies -- Index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This volume accepts that in the 20th century imagination, Devon has often been portrayed as the antitheses of an urban, technological modernism a place of nostalig retreat from change - yet argues that it has not been isolated from modernism.

ISBN:

1871516951 (paperback)
9781871516951 (paperback)

Subject:

Art, Modern.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Buildings.
Culturele identiteit.
Bouwkunst.
Keramiek.
Devon (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
Devon (Angleterre) Constructions.
England Devon.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Smiles, Sam.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200697
Call No.: NA969.D4 G6 1998
Status: Available

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