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Moderne
Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Their use of sumptuous materials, rich jewel tones, intricate geometric patterns, and complex and varied textures has made this work a lasting favorite among interior designers, architects, and their clients. When it first appeared, the got moderne, or modern taste, was marketed through limited-edition portfolios containing unbound drawings, printed in full color using a traditional process called pochoir. Created in an era before color photography, the vivid gouache and watercolor d...
The Politics of the Artificial
Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit on to the Web sites on our computer screens. One of the pioneers of design studies and still one of its most distinguished practitioners, Victor Margolin here offers a timely meditation on design and its study at the turn of the millennium and charts new directions for the future development of both fields. Divided into sections on the practice and study of design, the essays in The Politics of the Artificial cover such topics as design history, design research, design as a political tool, sustainable design, and the p...
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
Weapons of Mass Dissemination
This striking soft-cover book with more than three dozen color plates was produced to accompany an exhibition at Wolfsonian-Florida International University on how combatants from many sides used propaganda, mainly ephemera, to stir the masses during World Wars I and II. Even after the exhibit is dismantled, the catalog will stand on its own. The catalog contains essays on why warring governments in the 20th century placed such an emphasis on propaganda and mass communications to sway public opinion, and also on the design elements and language that all sides used to involve the public. The exhibition includes posters, matchbooks, housewares, and even children’s books and games, all designed to prepare the populace for war, encourage enlistment in the armed forces, set behavior standards (“Loose Lips Sink Ships!), and spur domestic production. The second half of the book looks at each image examining why the design elements and text are so effective.
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Contemporary Collecting
While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such as eBay, collecting has had a consistent and growing presence in popular culture. In tandem with popular collecting, institutions are responding to changes in the collecting environment, as library catalogs go online and museums use new technologies to help generate attendance for their exhibits. In Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, Kevin M. Moist and David Banas...
Pride in Modesty
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Caribbean Modernist Architecture
In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architec...
Design Objects and the Museum
CHAPTER 7 INDIAN LIVING CULTURES: COLLECTED, EXHIBITED AND PERFORMED Megha Rajguru and Nicola AshmoreUK museum practices -- engaging the community; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Location of the diaspora as the 'authenticator' in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery's collection; Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum exhibition design; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum: 'World Art' or 'Fine Art'?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; CHAPTER 8 TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM: AN EVOLVING CURATORIAL PROJECT Virginia Lucarelli.
