John A. Walker

Design History and the History of Design (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.

Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783718306
• Artikelnr.: 44171141

Autorenporträt

John A. Walker (1937-2014) was Reader in Art and Design History at Middlesex University. He is the author of Art and Celebrity (Pluto, 2002), Art in the Age of Mass Media (Pluto, 2001), and Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art Since 1945 (Pluto, 1998).