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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba(...)
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba(...)
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Design, Periods and Styles
Design, Periods and Styles
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October 2008, London
October 2008, London
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Cold war modern design 1945 - 1970
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba and Japan. Essays on subjects as diverse as Cold War strategy, domesticity and hi-tech design developments are illustrated with remarkable images by internationally renowned artists and designers from Picasso to Kubrick, alongside the forgotten figures of the Cold War era.
Cold war modern design 1945 - 1970
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba and Japan. Essays on subjects as diverse as Cold War strategy, domesticity and hi-tech design developments are illustrated with remarkable images by internationally renowned artists and designers from Picasso to Kubrick, alongside the forgotten figures of the Cold War era.
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October 2008, London
October 2008, London
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Design, Periods and Styles
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128 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm
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128 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm
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Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014], ©2014
Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014], ©2014
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Nadav Kander : dust / with texts by Will Self and Nadav Kander ; [copyediting Laura Schleussner ; editor of Nadav Kander's text Sarah Sutcliffe].
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128 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm
Nadav Kander : dust / with texts by Will Self and Nadav Kander ; [copyediting Laura Schleussner ; editor of Nadav Kander's text Sarah Sutcliffe].
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Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014], ©2014
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[Place of publication not identified] : Thinkbelt, 2020.
[Place of publication not identified] : Thinkbelt, 2020.
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Interstitial EP027 : Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek.
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Interstitial EP027 : Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Thinkbelt, 2020.
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Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo ’67 in Montreal(...)
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Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo ’67 in Montreal(...)
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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November 2008, Baden
November 2008, Baden
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Cold war confrontations: US exhibitions and their role in the cultural cold war
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Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo ’67 in Montreal and Expo ’70 in Osaka. This book draws on Masey’s recollections, recently declassified documents, unpublished memoirs and photographs, interviews with surviving members of U.S. design teams, and others, to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping America’s image during the cultural Cold War.
Cold war confrontations: US exhibitions and their role in the cultural cold war
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Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo ’67 in Montreal and Expo ’70 in Osaka. This book draws on Masey’s recollections, recently declassified documents, unpublished memoirs and photographs, interviews with surviving members of U.S. design teams, and others, to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping America’s image during the cultural Cold War.
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November 2008, Baden
November 2008, Baden
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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The oral history reader / edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson.
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xiv, 578 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
The oral history reader / edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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The Cold War is over, but its traces linger. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (born 1962) traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line, descending into underground tunnels and abandoned control centers, making images that remind us that this past remains vividly present.
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The Cold War is over, but its traces linger. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (born 1962) traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line, descending into underground tunnels and abandoned control centers, making images that remind us that this past remains vividly present.
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Martin Roemers: relics of the cold war
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The Cold War is over, but its traces linger. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (born 1962) traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line, descending into underground tunnels and abandoned control centers, making images that remind us that this past remains vividly present.
Martin Roemers: relics of the cold war
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The Cold War is over, but its traces linger. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (born 1962) traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line, descending into underground tunnels and abandoned control centers, making images that remind us that this past remains vividly present.
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December 2009
December 2009
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Photography monographs
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xxx, 479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : UMI Dissertation Services, [2011].
[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : UMI Dissertation Services, [2011].
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Land of the in-between : modern architecture and the State in socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-65 / by Vladimir Kulić.
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xxx, 479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Land of the in-between : modern architecture and the State in socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-65 / by Vladimir Kulić.
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[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : UMI Dissertation Services, [2011].
[Ann Arbor, Michigan] : UMI Dissertation Services, [2011].
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In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its professors’ and students’ interactions with mass(...)
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In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its professors’ and students’ interactions with mass(...)
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Bauhaus culture : from Weimar to the Cold War
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In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its professors’ and students’ interactions with mass culture; establish the complexity of its relationship with Wilhelmine, Nazi, and postwar German politics; and challenge the claim that its architects greatly influenced American architecture in the 1930s.
Bauhaus culture : from Weimar to the Cold War
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In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its professors’ and students’ interactions with mass culture; establish the complexity of its relationship with Wilhelmine, Nazi, and postwar German politics; and challenge the claim that its architects greatly influenced American architecture in the 1930s.
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July 2006, Minneapolis
July 2006, Minneapolis
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Modernism
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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British(...)
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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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March 2009, Cambridge
March 2009, Cambridge
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Cold war kitchen: americanization, technology and European users
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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British state-subsidized kitchen design so innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury American product. The concluding essays challenge the received wisdom of past interpretations of the kitchen debate.
Cold war kitchen: americanization, technology and European users
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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British state-subsidized kitchen design so innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury American product. The concluding essays challenge the received wisdom of past interpretations of the kitchen debate.
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March 2009, Cambridge
March 2009, Cambridge
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Commercial interiors, Building types
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480 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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Bussum, the Netherlands : THOTH Publishers, [2014], ©2014
Bussum, the Netherlands : THOTH Publishers, [2014], ©2014
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Atlas of the functional city : CIAM 4 and comparative urban analysis / editors, Evelien van Es [and five others] ; with contributions of Enrico Chapel [and 26 others].
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Atlas of the functional city : CIAM 4 and comparative urban analysis / editors, Evelien van Es [and five others] ; with contributions of Enrico Chapel [and 26 others].
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Bussum, the Netherlands : THOTH Publishers, [2014], ©2014
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