Cold War modern : design 1945-1970 /

"Modern life after 1945 seemed to promise both utopia and catastrophe. Both could, it seemed, be achieved at the 'push of a button'. Published to accompany a major V&A exhibition, 'Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970', this book explores how the politics of the Cold War sh...

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Other Authors: Crowley, David, 1966-, Pavitt, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : V&A, 2008.
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505 0 |a Part 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 Wrocław, 1948 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- Part 2: Europe reconstructed, Europe divided / David Crowley -- Marshall Plan modernism in divided Germany / Greg Castillo -- Part 3: Design and the democratic ideal / Jane Pavitt -- Cold war front lines: the architecture of defence / Caroline Maniaque -- Part 4: The bomb in the brain / Jane Pavitt -- War games: cold war Britain in film and fiction / Barry Curtis -- Part 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 -- Part 6: The hi-tech cold war / Jane Pavitt and David Crowley -- 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 8: Looking down on spaceship earth: cold war landscapes / David Crowley. 
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