The Design History Reader
Published on 28. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-1-350-12103-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualised understanding of the role of design and designed objects within social and cultural history.
Extracts range from the 18th Century, when design and manufacture separated, to the present day. Drawn from scholarly and polemical books, research articles, exhibition catalogues, and magazines, the extracts are placed in themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with an annotated guide to further reading.
Covering both primary texts (such as the writings of designers and design reformers) and secondary texts (in the form of key works of design history), the reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice.
Authors include: Judy Attfield, Jeremy Aynsley, Reyner Banham, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Christopher Breward, Denise Scott Brown, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Clive Dilnot, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Greenhalgh, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, John Heskett, Pat Kirkham, Adolf Loos, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Jeffrey Meikle, William Morris, Gillian Naylor, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Ruskin, Adam Smith, Penny Sparke, John Styles, Nancy Troy, Thorstein Veblen, Robert Venturi, John Walker, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Extracts range from the 18th Century, when design and manufacture separated, to the present day. Drawn from scholarly and polemical books, research articles, exhibition catalogues, and magazines, the extracts are placed in themed sections, with each section separately introduced and each concluded with an annotated guide to further reading.
Covering both primary texts (such as the writings of designers and design reformers) and secondary texts (in the form of key works of design history), the reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice.
Authors include: Judy Attfield, Jeremy Aynsley, Reyner Banham, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Christopher Breward, Denise Scott Brown, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Clive Dilnot, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Greenhalgh, Dick Hebdige, Steven Heller, John Heskett, Pat Kirkham, Adolf Loos, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Jeffrey Meikle, William Morris, Gillian Naylor, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Ruskin, Adam Smith, Penny Sparke, John Styles, Nancy Troy, Thorstein Veblen, Robert Venturi, John Walker, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Reviews / Votes
The Design History Reader will be of enormous benefit to the field. It includes both an excellent collection of essays on the history of design and essential material related to methods and themes. The scope of this book is remarkable. * David Brody, Parsons, the New School for Design * Intelligently selected and carefully structured, with an impressive temporal and geographical range, this collection will prove invaluable to students new to design history, but has wider potential for all those involved in historical, cultural and media studies. * Jill Seddon, University of Brighton * Both scholarly and delightfully readable, The Design History Reader provides a valuable compilation of canonical texts along with a series of thoughtful contemporary essays on a wide range of topics. * Marianne Eggler, Museum of Modern Art, New York * The Design History Reader offers a fine blend of texts through which to explore the field, and comprises a valuable resource for an up-to-date design history survey. * Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo * This comprehensive selection of texts by designers, theorists and design historians range from eighteenth century economics to manifestoes on sustainability. Thoughtfully organised and thoroughly contextualised, The Design History Reader will be indispensable to students, lecturers and researchers. * Deborah Sugg Ryan, University College Falmouth * the Reader acts as an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice. * New Design * In this resource, not only are the chosen writings excellent examples, but the structure of the book itself is a model of clarity ... A very useful, eclectic and elegant resource for understanding and exploring the history and development of design. Its range ... is impressive, and it would prove an excellent model and introductory resource, not just to design students but to those interested in other areas such as media, art, and critical, cultural and historical studies. -- Mary Loveday Edwards, Plymouth College of Art * The Higher Education Academy * A really good read. Lees-Maffei and Houze have skilfully collected and edited a wide range of interesting and sometimes unexpected (but very rewarding) essays and, furthermore, have organized them in a clear and navigable way. * Design Issues * Serves as both a handy undergraduate or postgraduate textbook, as well as a valuable reference for seasoned scholars ... A timely contribution to the field, not only in [its] confirmation of design history's vitality, but also it [its] stimulating and provocative theoretical reflections. * Design and Culture * This book will be a useful text for students on studio-based courses: it gives a nice sense of the range of secondary approaches to the subject and allows glimpses of primary material which they might follow up. -- Jim Cheshire * The Journal of William Morris Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
70 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1078 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-12103-4 (9781350121034)
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Persons
Grace Lees-Maffei is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Design and Applied Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.
Rebecca Houze is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University.
Rebecca Houze is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
Part One: Histories
Introduction to Part One, Rebecca Houze
SECTION 1: NEW DESIGNERS 1676- 1820
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
1. An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2. A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design, Darron Dean
3. Of The Division of Labour, Adam Smith
4. The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-Century Design, Mary Guyatt
5. Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth Century England, John Styles
Guide to Further Reading for Section 1
SECTION 2: DESIGN REFORM 1820-1910
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
6. Science, Industry, and Art, Gottfried Semper
7. The Nature of Gothic, John Ruskin
8. The Ideal Book, William Morris
9. The 'American System' and Mass-Production from Industrial Design, John Heskett
10. The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France, Debora Silverman
11. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright
Guide to Further Reading for Section 2
SECTION 3: MODERNISMS 1908-1950
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
12. Introduction to Modernism in Design, Paul Greenhalgh
13. Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos
14. Werkbund Theses and Antitheses, Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde
15. The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen from Pioneers of Modern Design, Nikolaus Pevsner
16. The Coloristes and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, from Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Nancy Troy
17. From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed, Gillian Naylor
18. The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining, Nicolas Maffei
Guide to Further Reading for Section 3
SECTION 4: WAR/POSTWAR/COLD WAR 1943-1970
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
19. Utility Furniture and the Myth of Utility 1943-1948, Matthew Denney
20. 'Here Is the Modern World Itself' the Festival of Britain's Representations of The Future Becky Conekin
21. Populuxe, Thomas Hine
22. The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution Susan E. Reid
23. All That Glitters is Not Stainless, Reyner Banham
Guide to Further Reading for Section 4
SECTION 5: POSTMODERNISMS 1967-2006
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
24. A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour
25. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard
26. There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design!, Gert Selle
27. Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
28. What was Philippe Starck thinking of? P. Lloyd and D. Snelders
29. Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Guide to Further Reading for Section 5
SECTION 6: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 1960-2003
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
30. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller
31. How to Outmode a $4,000 Vehicle in Two Years, from The Waste Makers, Vance Packard
32. Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the Designer, from Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
33. Material Doubts and Plastic Fallout, from American Plastic, Jeffrey L. Meikle
34. Introduction, The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide, Joel Makower, John Elkington, and Julia Hailes
35. Redefining Rubbish: Commodity Disposal and Sourcing, Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe
36. The Hannover Principles. Design for Sustainability, William McDonough
Guide to Further Reading for Section 6
Part Two: Methods and Themes
Introduction to Part Two , Grace Lees-Maffei
SECTION 7: FOUNDATIONS, DEBATES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1980-1995
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
37. Taking Stock in Design History, Fran Hannah and Tim Putnam
38. The State of Design History, Part I: Mapping the Field, Clive Dilnot
39. Design History and the History of Design, John A. Walker
40. Design History or Design Studies: Subject Matter and Methods, Victor Margolin
41. Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity, Jonathan M. Woodham
Guide to Further Reading for Section 7
SECTION 8: OBJECTS, SUBJECTS AND NEGOTIATIONS
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
42. Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle, Dick Hebdige
43. The Most Cherished Objects in the Home, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton
44. How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Ruth Schwartz Cowan
45. The History of Craft, Paul Greenhalgh
46. Faith, Form and Finish: Shaker Furniture in Context, Jean M. Burks
Guide to Further Reading for Section 8
SECTION 9: GENDER AND DESIGN
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
47. FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male: Feminist Critiques of Design, Judy Attfield
48. The Architect's Wife, Introduction to As Long As Its Pink, Penny Sparke
49. Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration,' and the Eamses, Pat Kirkham
50. 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption from The Hidden Consumer, Christopher Breward
51. Self-Made Motormen: The Material Construction of Working-class Masculine Identities through Car Modification, Andrew Bengry-Howell and Christine Griffin
Guide to Further Reading for Section 9
SECTION 10: CONSUMPTION
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
52. The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Capital, Karl Marx
53. Conspicuous Consumption from The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
54. Myth Today, The New Citroen, and Plastic, from Mythologies, Roland Barthes
55. Introduction and The Sense of Distinction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Pierre Bourdieu
56. 'Parties Are the Answer': The Ascent of the Tupperware Party, Alison Clarke
57. The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers during the 1960s, Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Guide to Further Reading for Section 10
SECTION 11: MEDIATION
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
58. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
59. Advertising, Mother of Graphic Design, Steven Heller
60. 'Decorators May Be Compared to Doctors' An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestions For House Decoration In Painting, Woodwork And Furniture (1876), Emma Ferry
61. Integrative Practice: Oral History, Dress and Disability Studies, Liz Linthicum
62. Introduction to Design and the Modern Magazine, Jeremy Aynsley and Kate Forde
Guide to Further Reading for Section 11
SECTION 12: LOCAL/REGIONAL/NATIONAL/GLOBAL
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
63. Finding Poland in the Margins: The Case of the Zakopane Style, David Crowley
64. Furniture Design and Colonialism: Negotiating Relationships between Britain and Australia, 1880-1901, Tracey Avery
65. "From Baby's First Bath:" Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design, Gennifer Weisenfeld
66. Land Rover and Colonial-Style Adventure, Jeanne Van Eeden
67. Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania, Paul B. Bick and Sorina Chiper
Guide to Further Reading for Section 12
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
Part One: Histories
Introduction to Part One, Rebecca Houze
SECTION 1: NEW DESIGNERS 1676- 1820
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
1. An Indian Basket, Providence, Rhode Island, 1676, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2. A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design, Darron Dean
3. Of The Division of Labour, Adam Smith
4. The Wedgwood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth-Century Design, Mary Guyatt
5. Manufacturing, Consumption and Design in Eighteenth Century England, John Styles
Guide to Further Reading for Section 1
SECTION 2: DESIGN REFORM 1820-1910
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
6. Science, Industry, and Art, Gottfried Semper
7. The Nature of Gothic, John Ruskin
8. The Ideal Book, William Morris
9. The 'American System' and Mass-Production from Industrial Design, John Heskett
10. The 1900 Paris Exposition, from Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France, Debora Silverman
11. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Frank Lloyd Wright
Guide to Further Reading for Section 2
SECTION 3: MODERNISMS 1908-1950
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
12. Introduction to Modernism in Design, Paul Greenhalgh
13. Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos
14. Werkbund Theses and Antitheses, Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde
15. The Modern Movement before Nineteen-fourteen from Pioneers of Modern Design, Nikolaus Pevsner
16. The Coloristes and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, from Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Nancy Troy
17. From Workshop to Laboratory, from The Bauhaus Reassessed, Gillian Naylor
18. The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: from Art Deco to Streamlining, Nicolas Maffei
Guide to Further Reading for Section 3
SECTION 4: WAR/POSTWAR/COLD WAR 1943-1970
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
19. Utility Furniture and the Myth of Utility 1943-1948, Matthew Denney
20. 'Here Is the Modern World Itself' the Festival of Britain's Representations of The Future Becky Conekin
21. Populuxe, Thomas Hine
22. The Khrushchev Kitchen: Domesticating the Scientific-Technological Revolution Susan E. Reid
23. All That Glitters is Not Stainless, Reyner Banham
Guide to Further Reading for Section 4
SECTION 5: POSTMODERNISMS 1967-2006
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
24. A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour
25. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard
26. There is No Kitsch, There is Only Design!, Gert Selle
27. Deconstruction and Graphic Design: History Meets Theory, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
28. What was Philippe Starck thinking of? P. Lloyd and D. Snelders
29. Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Guide to Further Reading for Section 5
SECTION 6: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 1960-2003
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
30. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller
31. How to Outmode a $4,000 Vehicle in Two Years, from The Waste Makers, Vance Packard
32. Do-It-Yourself Murder: the Social and Moral Responsibility of the Designer, from Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek
33. Material Doubts and Plastic Fallout, from American Plastic, Jeffrey L. Meikle
34. Introduction, The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide, Joel Makower, John Elkington, and Julia Hailes
35. Redefining Rubbish: Commodity Disposal and Sourcing, Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe
36. The Hannover Principles. Design for Sustainability, William McDonough
Guide to Further Reading for Section 6
Part Two: Methods and Themes
Introduction to Part Two , Grace Lees-Maffei
SECTION 7: FOUNDATIONS, DEBATES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1980-1995
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
37. Taking Stock in Design History, Fran Hannah and Tim Putnam
38. The State of Design History, Part I: Mapping the Field, Clive Dilnot
39. Design History and the History of Design, John A. Walker
40. Design History or Design Studies: Subject Matter and Methods, Victor Margolin
41. Resisting Colonization: Design History Has Its Own Identity, Jonathan M. Woodham
Guide to Further Reading for Section 7
SECTION 8: OBJECTS, SUBJECTS AND NEGOTIATIONS
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
42. Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle, Dick Hebdige
43. The Most Cherished Objects in the Home, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton
44. How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum, Ruth Schwartz Cowan
45. The History of Craft, Paul Greenhalgh
46. Faith, Form and Finish: Shaker Furniture in Context, Jean M. Burks
Guide to Further Reading for Section 8
SECTION 9: GENDER AND DESIGN
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
47. FORM/female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/male: Feminist Critiques of Design, Judy Attfield
48. The Architect's Wife, Introduction to As Long As Its Pink, Penny Sparke
49. Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration,' and the Eamses, Pat Kirkham
50. 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption from The Hidden Consumer, Christopher Breward
51. Self-Made Motormen: The Material Construction of Working-class Masculine Identities through Car Modification, Andrew Bengry-Howell and Christine Griffin
Guide to Further Reading for Section 9
SECTION 10: CONSUMPTION
Introduction, Rebecca Houze
52. The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Capital, Karl Marx
53. Conspicuous Consumption from The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
54. Myth Today, The New Citroen, and Plastic, from Mythologies, Roland Barthes
55. Introduction and The Sense of Distinction from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Pierre Bourdieu
56. 'Parties Are the Answer': The Ascent of the Tupperware Party, Alison Clarke
57. The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers during the 1960s, Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Guide to Further Reading for Section 10
SECTION 11: MEDIATION
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
58. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
59. Advertising, Mother of Graphic Design, Steven Heller
60. 'Decorators May Be Compared to Doctors' An Analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's Suggestions For House Decoration In Painting, Woodwork And Furniture (1876), Emma Ferry
61. Integrative Practice: Oral History, Dress and Disability Studies, Liz Linthicum
62. Introduction to Design and the Modern Magazine, Jeremy Aynsley and Kate Forde
Guide to Further Reading for Section 11
SECTION 12: LOCAL/REGIONAL/NATIONAL/GLOBAL
Introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei
63. Finding Poland in the Margins: The Case of the Zakopane Style, David Crowley
64. Furniture Design and Colonialism: Negotiating Relationships between Britain and Australia, 1880-1901, Tracey Avery
65. "From Baby's First Bath:" Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design, Gennifer Weisenfeld
66. Land Rover and Colonial-Style Adventure, Jeanne Van Eeden
67. Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania, Paul B. Bick and Sorina Chiper
Guide to Further Reading for Section 12
Bibliography
Index