Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse

By: Kjetil Fallan

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Synopsis: Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation's material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, Designing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway's new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 212 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781315528632
Related ISBNs:: 9781315528656, 9781472456625, 9781138316126
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/17/23
Copyrighted By:: Kjetil Fallan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.