LEADER 03493oam 22005054a 450 001 9910524864903321 005 20230905203341.0 010 $a0-19-087728-6 010 $a0-19-087727-8 035 $a(CKB)5590000000001596 035 $a(OCoLC)1192534472 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse91569 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000001596 100 $a20191209d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDesigning One Nation$eThe Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany, 1945-1990 /$fKatrin Schreiter 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) 311 $a0-19-087729-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForm Follows Function: Industrial Design and the Emergence of Postwar Economic Culture -- Producing Modern German Homes: The Economy of National Branding -- Intra-German Trade and the Aesthetic Dialectic of European Integration -- From Competition to Cooperation: Cold War Diplomacy of German Design -- Conservative Modernity: The Reception of Functionalism in German Living Rooms. 330 $a"Designing One Nation explores how East and West Germans negotiated their country's postwar division at the juncture of economic and cultural politics. It is especially concerned with historical interconnections between the two Germanies in industrial design, economic structures, corporate ethos, trade, economic foreign policy and consumer culture, all of which are subsumed under the term "economic culture." It shows that post-war reconstruction, as envisioned and realized by a network of politicians, entrepreneurs, and cultural brokers, did more than to modernize the respective parts of Germany. Rather, through the national re-inscription of their material culture, here explored in the realm of interior design and furniture production, the two German states pursued an unprecedented effort to regain economic stability and political influence in post-war Europe's order. Significantly, what started as a Cold War competition for ideological superiority quickly turned into a shared, politically legitimizing quest for an untainted post-fascist modernity. Following products from the drawing board into the homes of ordinary Germans, this book thus offers unique insights into how converging visions of German industrial modernity created shared expectations about economic progress and living standards. The resulting economic culture linked the two Germanies together and acted internationally in a pan-German interest"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aFunctionalism in art$xHistory 606 $aIndustrial design$xSocial aspects$zGermany 606 $aGerman reunification question (1949-1990) 607 $aGermany$xEconomic conditions$y1990- 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1945-1990 607 $aGermany (East)$xRelations$zGermany (West) 607 $aGermany (West)$xRelations$zGermany (East) 615 0$aFunctionalism in art$xHistory. 615 0$aIndustrial design$xSocial aspects 615 0$aGerman reunification question (1949-1990) 676 $a943.087 700 $aSchreiter$b Katrin$01115788 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524864903321 996 $aDesigning One Nation$92642838 997 $aUNINA