LEADER 03927nam 22007334a 450 001 9910450446603321 005 20210618232845.0 010 $a1-282-36040-X 010 $a9781417544996 010 $a9786612360404 010 $a0-520-94135-7 010 $a1-59734-477-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520941359 035 $a(CKB)1000000000024212 035 $a(EBL)223369 035 $a(OCoLC)475927817 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127505 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10016084 035 $a(PQKB)10081326 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038190 035 $a(OCoLC)56732963 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30792 035 $a(DE-B1597)520847 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520941359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223369 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10068594 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL236040 035 $a(OCoLC)923701116 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223369 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000024212 100 $a20030318d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe authority of everyday objects$b[electronic resource] $ea cultural history of West German industrial design /$fPaul Betts 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (366 pages) 225 1 $aWeimar and now ;$v34 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25384-1 311 0 $a0-520-24004-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-338) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION. Design, the Cold War, and West German Culture --$tCHAPTER ONE. Re-Enchanting the Commodity --$tCHAPTER TWO. The Conscience of the Nation --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Nierentisch Nemesis --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Design and Its Discontents --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Design, Liberalism, and the State --$tCHAPTER SIX. Coming in from the Cold --$tCONCLUSION. Memory and Materialism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aFrom the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups-including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations-who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture. 410 0$aWeimar and now ;$v34. 606 $aIndustrial design$zGermany$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndustrial design$xHistory. 676 $a745.2/0943 686 $aLK 92900$2rvk 700 $aBetts$b Paul$0971748 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450446603321 996 $aThe authority of everyday objects$92458222 997 $aUNINA