Grace Lees-Maffei (University of Hertfor Rebecca Houze (Nothern Illinois Universi
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...
This is the first anthology to address Design History as an established discipline, a field of study which is developing a contextualised understandin...