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Title:

Cold war modern : design 1945-1970 / edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt.

Publisher:

Victoria and Albert Museum,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

319 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Modernism (Art)--Political aspects--Exhibitions.
Art, Modern--20th century--Political aspects--Exhibitions.
Design--Political aspects--Exhibitions.
Cold War.
Modernisme (Art)--Aspect politique--Expositions.
Art--20e siècle--Aspect politique--Expositions.
Design--Aspect politique--Expositions.
Guerre froide.

Other Authors:

Crowley, David, 1966-
Pavitt, Jane.
Victoria and Albert Museum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 Wroctaw, 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 / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : 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.

ISBN:

1851775706 (pbk)
9781851775705 (pbk)
1851775439 (hbk)
9781851775439 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)476570845

LCCN:

2008924012

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)