Cold War modern
Subtitle: design 1945-1970
By: edited by David Crowley and Jane Pavitt.
Contributors: Crowley, David, 1966-; Pavitt, Jane.; Victoria and Albert Museum.
Publisher: V&A Pub.; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781851775439; 9781851775705
Subjects: Design -- Political aspects -- Exhibitions; Design -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "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 shaped architecture and design. Reassessing 'classic' designs and introducing many little-known objects."--Jacket.
Notes: Exhibition catalog held at Victoria and Albert Museum, Sept. 2008-Jan. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-[301]) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 Wroctaw, 1948 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; title: 2. Europe reconstructed, Europe divided / David Crowley : Marshall Plan modernism in divided Germany / Greg Castillo; title: 3. Design and the democratic ideal / Jane Pavitt : Cold war front lines: the architecture of defence / Caroline Maniaque; title: 4. The bomb in the brain / Jane Pavitt ; War games: cold war Britain in film and fiction / Barry Curtis; title: 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; title: 6. The hi-tech cold war / David Crowley and Jane Pavitt : 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; title: 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; title: 8. Looking down on spaceship earth: cold war landscapes / David Crowley.