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Design in context / [Penny Sparke]

By: Sparke, Penny.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 1987Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780747510949 (pbk. (1991)); 074750072X; 0747510946 (pbk. (1991)).Subject(s): Design -- History -- 19th century | Design -- History -- 20th century | Industrial design -- HistoryDDC classification: 745.409 | 745.444
Contents:
Part 1. 1750-1914: Introduction -- Design and commerce in the eighteenth century -- Mechanization and design, 1830-1914 -- Design reform, 1830-1914 -- Part 2. 1915-1939: Introduction -- Politics, society and design -- Industry, technology and design -- Theory and design -- Popular style in the 1930s -- Part 3. 1940-1985: Introduction -- Reconstruction and design -- Design after modernism.
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A Quarto book

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255) and index.

Part 1. 1750-1914: Introduction -- Design and commerce in the eighteenth century -- Mechanization and design, 1830-1914 -- Design reform, 1830-1914 -- Part 2. 1915-1939: Introduction -- Politics, society and design -- Industry, technology and design -- Theory and design -- Popular style in the 1930s -- Part 3. 1940-1985: Introduction -- Reconstruction and design -- Design after modernism.