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Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Hardcover

Series: Making Sense of History, Book 24

Art HistoryGeneral DesignGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1785331558
ISBN13: 9781785331558
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jun 1 2016
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

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