Designing Modern Norway

A History of Design Discourse

Kjetil Fallan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-5662-5 (ISBN)

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Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation's material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, Designing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway's new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo, Norway

List of illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Organizing a National Design Culture

Chapter 2: New Nation: Institutional Visions

Chapter 3: Class and Culture: Design Reform Upstairs and Downstairs

Chapter 4: Design on the Home Front

Chapter 5: Reconstructing the Nation

Chapter 6: On Display: Crafting ‘Scandinavian Design’

Chapter 7: Unravelling Utopia: The Demise of the Applied Art Movement

Chapter 8: Design with Care: From Consumer Activism to Environmentalism

Chapter 9: Re-designing Discourse: from Ardent Advocacy to Amicable Advice

Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	38 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4724-5662-9 / 1472456629
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-5662-5 / 9781472456625
Zustand	Neuware