
Bringing Modernity Home
Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture
Judy Attfield(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 31. March 2007
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-7190-6326-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white|Tables
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6326-8 (9780719063268)
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Person
Judith Attfield was Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton -- .