Design and national identity / / Javier Gimeno-Martínez

• Autore: Gimeno Martínez Javier
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Ethnic relations - Economic aspects; Nationalism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Primordialism: Nations as Perennial entities. A National Character ; Rethinking National Romanticism ; The Logic of National Design-- Part II. Modernism : Top-down approaches to national identity. National Symbols and the State; Government Branding ; Design as a Matter of State -- Part III. Nationalism from below: bottom-up approaches to national identity. The Nation and the Familiar ; Trafficking the National ; Is Multiculturalism the New Vernacular?
• Sommario/riassunto: "This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design.Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey.This illuminating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the 'national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalisation, migration and cultural diversity.Javier Gimeno-Martinez is Lecturer in Design Cultures at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands." -- Publisher's description.
• Titolo autorizzato: Design and national identity
• ISBN: 1-4725-9105-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824927103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II