Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, ©1995.

Written by leading social
and art historians, this book examines how political, industrial and
cultural leaders have used design. With photographs of fascinating and
often unfamiliar objects, it shows how design has been a vital tool to acclimatizing people to life in the modern world.

ISBN:	0500237069 9780500237069
Description:	352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents:	Confronting modernity: traditions transformed - romantic nationalism in design, 1890-1920; German design and national identity, 1890-1918; the decorative arts in Amsterdam, 1890-1930; the English compromise - modern design and national consciousness, 1870-1940. Celebrating modernity: domesticating modernity - ambivalence and appropriation, 1920-1940; forging modern Italy; a "return to order" - issues of the vernacular and the classical in Italian inter-war design. Manipulating modernity - political persuasion: political things - design in Fascist Italy; design in inter-war Germany; emblems of production - workers in German, Italian and American art during the 1930's.
Other Titles:	Arts of reform and persuasion, 1885-1945
Responsibility:	edited by Wendy Kaplan.