Bibliograph

Cold War modern, design 1945-1970, edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt

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Cold War modern, design 1945-1970, edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-302) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cold War modern

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bibliography

Oclc number

227919322

Responsibility statement

edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt

Review

"Modern life after 1945 seemed to promise both utopia and catastrophe. Both could, it seemed, be achieved at the 'push of a button'. Published to accompany a major V & A exhibition, 'Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970', this book explores how the politics of the Cold War shaped architecture and design. Reassessing 'classic' designs and introducing many little-known objects."--Jacket

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design 1945-1970

Table Of 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 Wrocław, 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 / Jane Pavitt and David Crowley : 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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