Expanding Nationalisms at Worlds Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 18511915 introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied politica...
This book introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developin...
David Raizman's History of Modern Design has assumed landmark status within design studies. Synthesizing design, technology, art history and social history, Raizman builds a cogent argument for studying design as both a production-based discipline and an intellectually-driven profession.
- Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art History, School of Humanities, Purchase College, State University of New York, and Editor, Design and Culture
"With a reworking of the books narrative structure and inclusion of ways in which the concept and power of design have mutated in the seven years since its first publication, this book remains an essential addition to the bookshelves of designers, design students and those for whom design-thinking is important."
- Jamie Brassett, MA Course Director and Subject Leader, Central St Martin's
Functioning as a superb overview of the ways in which design issues affected the modern world (from the 18th century until now) Raizman has successfully createdthe foremost text for those well versed in design history while also presenting the general public with a comprehensive, informed, extremely well illustrated volume that will stand the test of time.
- Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History, Design and Graphic Art History, University of Minnesota
This book offers a fascinating and authoritative cross-disciplinary description of the past 250 years of design history. The text moves effortlessly between typography, graphic design, fashion, furniture design, architecture, and many other disciplines. It is exemplary because of its balanced prioritisation of historical events and factors and its rich contextualisation. It is an excellent textbook for teachers and students in universities, academies and design schools and a fine introduction for readers with an interest in design, with whom it has already, deservedly, found an audience.
- Ida Engholm, Associate Professor, Danish Centre for Design Research, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen
Incorporating architecture, graphic design, product design, typography, studio craft, furniture design and fashion design, seamlessly contextualized through both the "fine arts" canon and popular culture of their respective era, Raizmans History of Modern Design is an invaluable resource for not only understanding design history, but its relevance to cultural history. The host of new illustrations and up-to-the-minute writing on contemporary issues in design only improve upon Raizman's winning approach.
- Maria Elena Buszek, Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute
David Raizman is a professor in the Department of Visual Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has published several studies in journals and books focusing on the art and architecture of Spain in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries for the journal Gesta. Professor Raizman is also the author of Objects, Audiences, and Literatures: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design, co-edited with Carma Gorman published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK).
Preface 8
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction: Thinking about Design 11
Products, Technology, and Progress 11
Designers and the Expansion of Design 12
Discourse 13
PART I
Demand, Supply, and Design (17001800) 15
Introduction to Part I 16
1 Royal Demand and the Control of Production 17
State-owned Manufactories 17
Artists and Craftsmen 20
Porcelain 22
The Guilds 23
The Printers Art 28
2 Entrepreneurial Efforts in Britain and Elsewhere 31
Design in an Expanding Market 31
Wedgwood and Antiquity 33
Commodities and Fashion 36
The United States 38
Popular Literature and the Freedom of the Press 39
PART II
Expansion and Taste (18011865) 40
Introduction to Part II 42
3 Growing Pains: Expanding Industry in the Early Nineteenth Century 43
A Culture of Industry and Progress 43
New Materials and Processes 44
Beyond the Printed Page 50
Wallpaper and Fabric Printing 52
The American System 54
4 Design, Society, and Standards 57
Early Design Reform 57
Industry and its Discontents 58
Reform and the Gothic Revival 59
Henry Cole and the Cole Group 61
The Great Exhibition of 1851 63
Images for All 70
Popular Graphics in the United States 74
A Balance Sheet of Reform 76
Conclusion 77
PART III
Arts, Crafts, and Machines Industrialization: Hopes and Fears (18661914) 79
Introduction to Part III 80
5 The Joy of Work 81
Ruskin, Morris, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain 81
Morris and Socialism 85
Morris as Publisher 85
The Influence of William Morris in Britain 88
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States 91
Printing in the United States 98
Chicago and Frank Lloyd Wright 99
6 The Equality of the Arts 103
Design Reform and the Aesthetic Movement 103
Books, Illustration, and Type 110
The Aesthetic Movement in the United States 113
Dress 118
Design Reform in France: LArt Nouveau 120
Art Nouveau in Print and in Public 125
Glasgow: Charles Rennie Mackintosh 130
Austria 131
Belgium 136
Munich 138
Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Vernacular 140
Italy and Spain 143
7 Mechanization and Industry 147
Design and the Workplace 147
Germany 148
The American System of Manufacture and Fordism 151
Developments in Merchandising, Printing, and Advertising 154
Conclusion 155
PART IV
After World War I: Art, Industry, and Utopias (19181944) 157
Introduction to Part IV 158
8 Paris and Art Moderne (Art Deco) Before and Af...