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Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the "Britain can make it" exhibition of 1946 / edited by Patrick J. Maguire and Jonathan M. Woodham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial design--Great Britain--Exhibitions.
- Industrial design.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Industrial design--Great Britain--History.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1997.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Locating Britain Can Make it
- 1. Introduction: Politics and Design in Post-war Britain / Patrick J. Maguire 3
- 2. Britain Can Make It and the History of Design / Jonathan M. Woodham 17
- Part 2 Cultural Propaganda and Industrial Realism
- 3. Patriotism, Politics and Production / Patrick J. Maguire 29
- 4. The Politics of Persuasion: State, Industry and Good Design at the Britain Can Make It Exhibition / Jonathan M. Woodham 45
- Part 3 The Outlook of Manufacturing Industry
- 5. 'Fabrics for Everyman and for the Elite' / Mary Schoeser 67
- 6. Moving Forwards but Looking Backwards: The Dynamics of Design Change in the Early Post-war Pottery Industry / Graham M. McLaren 85
- 7. Good Design by Law: Adapting Utility Furniture to Peacetime Production: Domestic Furniture in the Reconstruction Period 1946-56 / Judy Attfield 99
- 8. Industrial Design: Aesthetic Idealism and Economic Reality / Patrick J. Maguire 111
- 9. Putting the Industrial Into Design: Early Problems Facing the Council of Industrial Design / Jonathan M. Woodham 123
- Part 4 Documentation and Commentary
- 10. Introduction to the Documents / Patrick J. Maguire, Jonathan M. Woodham 137
- 12. Outline Biographies: Thomas Barlow, Misha Black, Kenneth Clark, Stafford Cripps, Hugh Dalton, James Gardner, Milner Gray, Alan Jarvis, Alix Kilroy, S.C. ('Clem') Leslie, Francis Meynell, Gordon Russell, Basil Spence, Charles Tennyson, Allan Walton, Josiah Wedgwood, Cecil Weir 198
- 13. BCMI 1946: Photographs 210
- 14. Further Sources for Researching the Britain Can Make It Exhibition 1946 224
- A. Notes on the Material Contained in the Victoria & Albert Museum Archives / Doreen Leach
- B. Notes on the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex / Dorothy Sheridan
- C. Public Record Office, New
- 15. 1940s British Design: A Select Bibliography 234
- A. Britain Can Make It 1946
- B. Design in 1940s Britain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0718500733
- 0718501411
- OCLC:
- 36103655
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