Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the Britain can make it exhibition of 1946
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Design and cultural politics in post-war Britain : the Britain can make it exhibition of 1946
Leicester University Press, 1997
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Design and cultural politics in postwar Britain
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-241) and index
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Description
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Britain Can Make It (BCMI) exhibition, this collection of essays, documents and commentaries is a re-examination of a major design initiative in the immediate post-war period. BCMI encapsulated many of the problems which the newly-founded Council of Industrial Design was to face over the following decades: the tensions between a state-funded body, with its metropolitan bias, and British manufacturing industry located in the industrial regions; persuading the public that "good" modern design had a key role in everyday life; and the manifestation of a particular set of social and cultural values in the selection of exhibits and the means of design propaganda. The book draws on the documentary sources in the Design Council Archive.
Table of Contents
- Locating Britain Can Make It
- cultural propaganda and industrial realism
- the outlook of manufacturing industry
- documentation and commentary.
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