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History of Modern Design
Author: David Raizman
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ISBN: 9781856693486
Format: Soft Back
Published: April 2008
Published By: Laurence King Publishing
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Published: April 2008
Published By: Laurence King Publishing
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Product Description
This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social, and commercial context in which this relationship developed. The effects of a vastly enlarged audience for the products of modern design and the complex dynamic of mass consumption are also discussed. Part of this dynamic reveals that the products serve as signs for desires that have little to do with need or function.