History & Criticism

Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact. From 19th-century frontispieces to Soviet photo albums, from the...

In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might...

How new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the 1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their environments had a profound impact on theories and...

This is the essential student's guide to Design - its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design - from...

A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the...

This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social...

Based on a series of lectures developed by noted furniture designer Richard Schultz, this brief, striking book lays out his design manifesto both challenging and adding to Louis Sullivan's credo "form follows function." From African stools carved from a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546317Author Mads Nygaard FolkmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking...

Craft Communities addresses the social groups, old and new, which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix" disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049061Author Ladislav SutnarFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Italy is a major player in the global fashion industry, yet little has been written about its contribution to fashion curation. This book explores the management, display and curation of Italian fashion heritage, highlighting the role played by companies...

Making hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The...

This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organisations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey,...

This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present day. Addressing as it does questions of non-Western design and a design practice that is both radical and...

This book seeks to establish the meaning of design research, its role in the field, and the characteristics that differentiate research in design from research in other fields.The author introduces a model to explain the relationship between the...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated...

Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125788Author Isabel ProchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780847838851Author Tourbillon InternationalFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Children's Universe,U.S.Publisher Children's Universe,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350183742Author Martin AvilaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959053068Author Philipp OswaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545471Author Susan M. HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Since the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of understandings. This is especially true for practice-based design research. Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan...

A new pictorial reference book for artists and designers, with over 400 images from sources ranging from Greco-Roman art to Benjamin Franklin and Wes Anderson - Symbols offers a fresh approach to understanding symbolism in the visual arts Symbols are...

A visual history of the first quarter century of Bard Graduate Center This handsome publication celebrates the first 25 years of the institution founded by Dr. Susan Weber in 1993. Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Bard Graduate Center (BGC)...

A behind-the-scenes history of Pitti Uomo and the creative development of men's fashion over the past 40 years Since the 1980s, men's fashion has left behind the staid predictability of earlier years and undergone a fundamental mutation. Men are now...

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work of Oscar Reutersvard (1916-2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvard drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course...

Lino Tagliapietra is arguably the world's finest living glassblower. Raised on the island of Murano, the Venetian glass center, Tagliapietra began learning the trade at the age of 11 from Muranese masters and had earned the title of maestro by age 21. He...

A short critical overview of Elaine Lustig Cohen's pioneering design work as well as her paintings and collages. Elaine Lustig Cohen made her living as a freelance designer in the 1950s and 1960s - during a time when few women worked in the field. She...

In the early days of the digital revolution in graphic design, many designers and teachers of design were convinced that the era of drawing on paper was over - that there would soon no longer be a place for craft-based drawing at any stage of the design...

A short introduction to the life and work of Italian-born designer, George Giusti, examining his eclectic aesthetic of refined Modernism. George Giusti, an Italian-born and educated designer, first established a professional practice in Switzerland...

From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new right-wing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic...

How design made America modern: masterpieces of furniture, metalware and plastics from the early 20th century During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by advances in transportation, communication,...

Designed in 1929 and completed in 1930, this rare, bespoke bedroom, created for the seventeen-year-old Elaine Wormser, embodies the skillful blend of Viennese artistic influences, sleek modern finishes, daring colour and pattern that marked all of the...

Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power. This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960088508Author Charles GuteFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of MarylandPublisher Center for Art and...