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Cold War modern : design 1945-1970 / edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : V&A Pub., 2008.Description: 319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781851775439 (cased)
  • 1851775439 (cased)
  • 1851775706 (pbk.)
  • 9781851775705 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.409045 22
LOC classification:
  • NK789 .C65 2008
Other classification:
  • 21.82
Contents:
1. Introduction / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : From monuments to fast cars: aspects of cold war art, 1946-1957 / Sarah Wilson ; Modernism between peace and freedom: Picasso and others at the Congress of Intellectuals in Wroctaw, 1948 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- 2. Europe reconstructed, Europe divided / David Crowley : Marshall Plan modernism in divided Germany / Greg Castillo -- 3. Design and the democratic ideal / Jane Pavitt : Cold war front lines: the architecture of defence / Caroline Maniaque -- 4. The bomb in the brain / Jane Pavitt ; War games: cold war Britain in film and fiction / Barry Curtis -- 5. Thaw modern: design in Eastern Europe after 1956 / David Crowley : 'Our kitchen is just as good': Soviet responses to the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- 6. The hi-tech cold war / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : Imagining the computer: Eliot Noyes, The Eames and the IBM Pavilion / John Harwood ; Expo '70 as watershed: the politics of American art and technology / Anne Collins Goodyear -- 7. In the image of revolution / David Crowley : Protest by design: Giancarlo de Carlo and the 14th Milan Triennale / Paola Nicolin ; The personal visions and public spaces of the Movement Group (Dvizhenie) / Jane A. Sharp ; Architecture or revolution? Vienna's 1968 / Jana Scholze -- 8. Looking down on spaceship earth: cold war landscapes / David Crowley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-302) and index.

1. Introduction / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : From monuments to fast cars: aspects of cold war art, 1946-1957 / Sarah Wilson ; Modernism between peace and freedom: Picasso and others at the Congress of Intellectuals in Wroctaw, 1948 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- 2. Europe reconstructed, Europe divided / David Crowley : Marshall Plan modernism in divided Germany / Greg Castillo -- 3. Design and the democratic ideal / Jane Pavitt : Cold war front lines: the architecture of defence / Caroline Maniaque -- 4. The bomb in the brain / Jane Pavitt ; War games: cold war Britain in film and fiction / Barry Curtis -- 5. Thaw modern: design in Eastern Europe after 1956 / David Crowley : 'Our kitchen is just as good': Soviet responses to the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- 6. The hi-tech cold war / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : Imagining the computer: Eliot Noyes, The Eames and the IBM Pavilion / John Harwood ; Expo '70 as watershed: the politics of American art and technology / Anne Collins Goodyear -- 7. In the image of revolution / David Crowley : Protest by design: Giancarlo de Carlo and the 14th Milan Triennale / Paola Nicolin ; The personal visions and public spaces of the Movement Group (Dvizhenie) / Jane A. Sharp ; Architecture or revolution? Vienna's 1968 / Jana Scholze -- 8. Looking down on spaceship earth: cold war landscapes / David Crowley.

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