Designing modern Britain / Cheryl Buckley.

Main entry:

Buckley, Cheryl, 1956-

Title & Author:

Designing modern Britain / Cheryl Buckley.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2007.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Modernity and tradition: late Victorian and Edwardian design -- 'Englishness' and identity: design in early twentieth-century Britain -- 'Going modern, but staying British': design and modernisms, 1930 to 1950 -- Designing the 'Detergent Age': design in the 1950s and'60s -- The ambiguities of progress: design from the late 1960s to 1980 -- 'I shop therefore I am': design since the '80s.

Summary:

Cheryl Buckley examines the culture as well as the products of design in Britain. She explores questions of national identity, regional variations, and the notions of 'Britishness' in a Britain that has been transformed from leading an empire to a modern multicultural society.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781861893222 (pbk.)
1861893221 (pbk.)
9781861894717
1861894716

Subject:

Design Great Britain History 20th century.
Design Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Design.
Architektur
Great Britain.
England
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Bildband.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254690
Call No.: BIB 184731
Status: Available

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