Global Design History

ISBN-13: 9780415572859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Glenn Adamson;Giorgio Riello;Sarah Teasley

Opis

Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale, placed into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Topics included are: the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of 'import substitution' German design in the context of empire handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey the international circulation of contemporary architects. Features leading design historians, each chapter paired with a 'response' to expand the discussion and test the methodologies on offer. Global Design History will be useful for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and researchers in design history and art history, and related subjects such as anthropology, craft studies and cultural geography.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: Preface  Introduction: Towards Global Design History Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson  1. The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of a Community of Taste Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Luca Molà  Response by Dana Leibsohn  2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections Anne Gerritsen  Response by Beverly Lemire  3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 John Styles  Response by Prasannan Parthasarathi  4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan Christine M. E. Guth  Response by Maxine Berg   5. The Globalization of the Fashion City Christopher Breward  Response by Simona Segre Reinach  6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions Dipti Bhagat  Response by Angus Lockyer   7. ‘From the Far Corners’: Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s Michael J. Golec  Response by Anne Balsamo   8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 John Maciuika  Response by Paul Betts   9. Where in the World is Design?: The Case of India, 1900-1945 Victor Margolin  Response by Christopher Pinney  10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design Gyökan Karakus  Response by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.  11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design Peter McNeil  Response by Shehnaz Suterwalla   12. Analyzing Social Networking Websites: The Design of Happy Network in China Basile Zimmermann  Response by Ngai-Ling Sum   13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture Jilly Traganou  Response by Lucia Allais  14. e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market Tom Barker and Ashley Hall  Response by Shannon May  Bibliography  Resource Guide