Utopia & reality : modernity in Sweden, 1900-1960 / [catalogue editor, Cecilia Widenheim]
Contributor(s): Widenheim, Cecilia
| Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.
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BookPublisher: New Haven : For the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, by Yale University Press, 2002Edition: English ed.Description: 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0300093594.Other title: Utopia and reality | Modernity in Sweden, 1900-1960.Subject(s): Modernism (Art) -- Sweden -- Exhibitions | Art, Swedish -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Arts, Swedish -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Design -- Sweden -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.4850747471 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.4850747471 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00192359 |
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The 20th century was characterized by an obsession with the impulse to be modern. New times demanded new ideologies and models of social organization that in turn stimulated new forms of art, architecture, photography, film and design. This volume examines how modernity was expressed in Sweden during the 20th century. Over 200 illustrations document the work of artists, photographers, industrialists, designers and architects whose ideas and practices, rooted within modernism and the modern movement, became a part of the vital heritage for which Sweden is still renowned.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Mar. 14-June 16, 2002. Originally published in Swedish in conjuncation with an exhibition held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-312) and index.
Prophets and deniers -- Scripts -- Utopia and reality -- Modernism and public art -- Turnpikes and blind alleys -- Differencing Modernism -- The technologies of Modernism -- The wish museum -- The roots of Modernism in Swedish architecture -- Utopia of the everyday -- The architect in focus during the first half of the twentieth-century -- Design for modern people -- The last Modernist -- Tradition and innovation in Swedish graphic design -- You\'ve got to be Modernistic -- Fine grain and brave angles -- This modern establishment called the movies -- Film as art - a Modernist movement -- Happy transitions.