Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain

by Patrick J. Maguire

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Britain Can Make It (BCMI) exhibition, this collection of essays, documents and commentaries is a re-examination of a major design initiative in the immediate post-war period. BCMI encapsulated many of the problems which the newly-founded Council of Industrial Design was to face over the following decades: the tensions between a state-funded body, with its metropolitan bias, and British manufacturing industry located...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718501411
• ISBN13: 9780718501419
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Leicester University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"