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Bringing Modernity Home
Judy Attfield
其他書名
Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture
出版
Manchester University Press
, 2007-06-15
主題
Art / General
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art / Popular Culture
Design / History & Criticism
Literary Collections / Essays
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
0719063264
9780719063268
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-C8wjvY-SnYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Bringing Modernity Home
offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war while the state and production considerations held sway when consumers "couldn't afford taste". The case studies of so-called frivolous items like the cocktail cabinet, the coffee table and the rise of DIY in the working-class homes of the "new towns" gives a flavor of the excitement and thrill they afforded designers, makers and consumers after the harsh deprivations of the war.