Designing Worlds National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Berghahn Books
2016, 2016
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| Series: | Making Sense of History
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : national design histories in an age of globalization / Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan – Designs in/on Africa / Dipti Bhagat – Does Southern African design history exist? / Deirdre Pretorius – Designing the South African nation : from nature to culture / Jacques Lange and Jeanne van Eeden – Resisting global homogeneity but craving global markets : Kiwiana and contemporary design practice in New Zealand / Claudia Bell – Creativity within a geographical-national framework: from modern Japanese design to Pevsner’s art geography / Ariyuki Kondo – Imagining the Indian nation : the design of Gandhi’s Dandi March and Nehru’s Republic Day Parade / Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan – Troubled geography : imagining Lebanon in 1960s tourist promotion / Zeina Maasri – Czech class or Bohemian crystal? The nationality of design in the Czech context / Marta Filipová – The myth of Danish design and the implicit claims of labels / Stina Teilmann-Lock – Altering a homogenized heritage : articulating heterogeneous material cultures in Norway and Sweden / Kjetil Fallan and Christina Zetterlund – A special relationship : the UK-US transatlantic domestic dialogue / Grace Lees-Maffei – Surveying the borders: ‘authenticity’ in Mexican-American food packaging, imagery and architecture / Nicolas P. Maffei – An empire of one’s own : individualism and domestic built form in twenty-first-century Jamaica / Davinia Gregory – The quest for modernity : a global/national approach to a history of design in Latin America / Patricia Lara-Betancourt – Of coffee, nature and exclusion : designing Brazilian national identity at international exhibitions (1867 and 1904) / Livia Rezende
- Includes bibliographical references and index