Designing modern Norway : a history of design discourse / Kjetil Fallan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallan, Kjetil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design and history--Norway.

Design and history.

Design--Norway.

Design.

Norway.

Physical Description:

ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse' is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation's material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, 'Designing Modern Norway' traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway's new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.

Contents:

1 Organizing a national design culture 13

2 New nation: institutional visions 31

3 Class and culture: design reform upstairs and downstairs 51

4 Design on the home front 73

5 Reconstructing the nation 95

6 On display: crafting 'Scandinavian Design' 113

7 Unravelling utopia: the demise of the applied art movement 135

8 Design with care: from consumer activism to environmentalism 157

9 Redesigning discourse: from ardent advocacy to amicable advice 173.

Notes:

"An Ashgate Book"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fallan, Kjetil, author. Designing modern Norway.

ISBN:

9781472456625

1472456629

OCLC:

940342329