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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, 2007-03
主題Art / GeneralArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Art / Popular CultureHistory / Social History
ISBN07190632729780719063275
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ozIIyQEACAAJ&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.