Showing resistance

Author: Harriet Atkinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526157403
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were taken up by activists and politicians from 1933 to 1953, becoming manifestos, weapons of war and a means of signalling political solidarities. Drawing on dozens of examples mounted in empty shops, workers’ canteens, station ticket halls and beyond, this richly illustrated book shows how this overlooked form was created by significant makers including artists Paul Nash, John Heartfield and Oskar Kokoschka, architect Erno Goldfinger and photographer Edith Tudor-Hart. Showing resistance is the first study of exhibitions as communications in mid-twentieth century Britain.

Ernő Goldfinger

Author: Elain Harwood
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837641188
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) is noted for his pre-war Hampstead house, preserved with all its contents by the National Trust, and for his high-rise housing of the late 1960s. These buildings bookend a long and varied career as a modernist who thought deeply about domestic space, cities and the constructional discipline of architecture. Inspired by his teacher Auguste Perret, he carried the spirit of 1920s Paris to enliven the English architectural scene. Goldfinger offered imaginative alternatives to standard solutions for post-war schools, housing and offices, and excelled at the composition of clusters of free-standing buildings as well as fitting neatly into existing streets. An unexpected aspect of his work was the collaboration with Paul and Marjorie Abbatt, founders of Britain’s first modernist toy business. Based on thorough research in Goldfinger’s extensive archive and close knowledge of the full range of his projects, this book provides an accessible and generously illustrated account of a fascinating figure. A unique collaboration by two of Britain’s leading architectural historians of the twentieth century, Elain Harwood and Alan Powers have campaigned for the preservation of Goldfinger’s work for over thirty years.

Design for Today

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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Educational Toys in America, 1800 to the Present

Author: Karen Hewitt
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Century of the Child

Author: Juliet Kinchin
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708260
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The book examines individual and collective visions for the material world of children, from utopian dreams for the citizens of the future to the dark realities of political conflict and exploitation. Surveying more than 100 years of toys, clothing, playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals, nurseries, furniture, posters, animation and books, this richly illustrated catalogue illuminates how progressive design has enhanced the physical, intellectual, and emotional development of children and, conversely, how models of children's play have informed experimental aesthetics and imaginative design thinking.

The Studio

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Modern Furniture

Author: Everard Nelson Exton
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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SIA Journal

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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Modern British Literature

Author: Ruth Zabriskie Temple
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Vol. 4, supplement, compiled and edited by M. Tucker and R. Stein.

Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America

Author: Alan Powers
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050077465X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
An exploration of the Bauhaus school and its legacy in the context of the modernist period, including its wider influence on art, design, and education. Bauhaus Goes West is the story of cultural and artistic exchange between Germany and the West over a period of seventy years. It presents a view of the influential Bauhaus school in relation to the wider modernist period, distinguishing between the received idea of the Bauhaus and the documented reality. Initially, the Bauhaus was seen as an educational experiment, only later was it recognized as a style and a movement. Working from meticulous research, Alan Powers reexamines speculations about the reception and understanding of individuals connected with the Bauhaus school and what they ultimately achieved. Looking in greater detail at the theory and practice of art, design, and architecture between the arts and crafts movement and modernism, this book challenges the assumption that the 1920s represented a void of reactionary conservatism. Bauhaus Goes West offers an opportunity to recover some of the overlooked aspects of avant-garde that ran parallel with the work of the Bauhaus, such as the film-making of Francis Brugui re and Len Lye, and the development of art instruction for children under Marion Richardson and the London County Council.