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British design from 1948 : innovation in the modern age / [edited by] Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood.

Contributor(s): Breward, Christopher, 1965- | Wood, Ghislaine | Victoria and Albert Museum.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : V&A Pub., 2012Description: 400 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781851776757.Subject(s): Design -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Design -- Great Britain -- 21st century -- ExhibitionsGenre/Form: Ausstellung -- London -- 2012.DDC classification: 745.4094109045
Contents:
Tradition and modernity 1945-79: [introduction] / Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood -- In the service of the state: change and continuity in design / Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood -- Export textiles in West Africa / Nicola Stylianou -- Urban visions: designing for the welfare state / Jonathan Woodham -- Coventry Cathedral / Lily Crowther -- Nation, land and heritage / Maurice Howard -- Ecology and furniture design / John Makepeace -- At home with modernity: the new domestic scene / Penny Sparke -- The legacy of the Festival of Britain / Terence Conran -- Subversion 1955-97: [introduction] / Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood -- Pop goes the art school: design and education / Simon Martin -- Paolozzi and the Krazy Kat Arkive / Anne Massey -- The RCA / Zandra Rhodes -- Staging space: design for performance 1958-89 / Kate Dorney -- Boutiques and beyond: the rise of British fashion / Christopher Breward -- Biba / Barbara Hulanicki -- Out of Nottingham / Paul Smith -- A danceable solution to teenage revolution: subcultural lifestyles, 1973-86 / Michael Bracewell -- The autonomous opportunity / Peter Saville -- Eighties, nineties, noughties / Tom Dixon -- Innovation and creativity 1963-2012: [introduction] / Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood -- Workshop of the world?: manufacturing the British product / Deborah Sugg Ryan -- Sixty years of design: reflections / Kenneth Grange -- The cult of the lab: a nation of inventors / Louise Shannon -- The old reliable: contemporary British design and the resources of craft / Glenn Adamson -- British design consultancy and the creative economy / Guy Julier -- A life in advertising / John Hegarty -- Postmodernism to ghost modernism: architectural revenants 1979-2012 / Jonathan Meades -- An architect in London / Zaha Hadid.
Summary: Celebrating the best design in Britain, this landmark book highlights the range of British creativity since the London Olympics of 1948 Drawing in more than 350 of the finest examples of British art, architecture, photography, fashion, textiles, furniture, graphic design, video games and product design, British Design from 1948 is a comprehensive survey of more than 60 years of British ingenuity.-- Jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This landmark book celebrates the best of British design, documenting the transformation of Britain's design landscape since 1948. Alongside essays by leading curators and commentators, British Design From 1948 presents the work of key practitioners (including Alexander McQueen, Terence Conran, Barbara Hulanicki, Paul Smith and Tom Dixon) to build a comprehensive survey of the finest fashion and textiles, furniture, ceramics and glass, theatre design, graphics, photography, architecture, fine art and sculpture from this period. In addition to discussing works commissioned for official purposes, including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the Festival of Britain, the book highlights the globally influential, and very British, counter-culture, from the Sixties boutiques of Mary Quant and Ossie Clark through to the club cultures of Punk, the New Romantics and Rave

Catalogue of the exhibition British design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Mar. 31-Aug. 12, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tradition and modernity 1945-79: [introduction] / Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood -- In the service of the state: change and continuity in design / Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood -- Export textiles in West Africa / Nicola Stylianou -- Urban visions: designing for the welfare state / Jonathan Woodham -- Coventry Cathedral / Lily Crowther -- Nation, land and heritage / Maurice Howard -- Ecology and furniture design / John Makepeace -- At home with modernity: the new domestic scene / Penny Sparke -- The legacy of the Festival of Britain / Terence Conran -- Subversion 1955-97: [introduction] / Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood -- Pop goes the art school: design and education / Simon Martin -- Paolozzi and the Krazy Kat Arkive / Anne Massey -- The RCA / Zandra Rhodes -- Staging space: design for performance 1958-89 / Kate Dorney -- Boutiques and beyond: the rise of British fashion / Christopher Breward -- Biba / Barbara Hulanicki -- Out of Nottingham / Paul Smith -- A danceable solution to teenage revolution: subcultural lifestyles, 1973-86 / Michael Bracewell -- The autonomous opportunity / Peter Saville -- Eighties, nineties, noughties / Tom Dixon -- Innovation and creativity 1963-2012: [introduction] / Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood -- Workshop of the world?: manufacturing the British product / Deborah Sugg Ryan -- Sixty years of design: reflections / Kenneth Grange -- The cult of the lab: a nation of inventors / Louise Shannon -- The old reliable: contemporary British design and the resources of craft / Glenn Adamson -- British design consultancy and the creative economy / Guy Julier -- A life in advertising / John Hegarty -- Postmodernism to ghost modernism: architectural revenants 1979-2012 / Jonathan Meades -- An architect in London / Zaha Hadid.

Celebrating the best design in Britain, this landmark book highlights the range of British creativity since the London Olympics of 1948 Drawing in more than 350 of the finest examples of British art, architecture, photography, fashion, textiles, furniture, graphic design, video games and product design, British Design from 1948 is a comprehensive survey of more than 60 years of British ingenuity.-- Jacket.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Christopher Breward is Principal of Edinburgh College of Art and Vice Principal of Creative Industries & Performing Arts at the University of Edinburgh. He is former Head of Research at the V&A and is a widely published author on the history of culture, design and fashion.
Ghislaine Wood is a Senior Curator in the V&A's Research Department specializing in twentieth-century art and design.

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