Objects of Desire - Design & Society from Wedgwood to IBM
Adrian Forty
Does form really follow function? How has design influenced the way we think? What does it tell us about who we are and how we are to behave? Why do we so passionately desire to own more, better, and "newer" products? Going as far back in the history of capitalism as the Industrial Revolution, noted historian Adrian Forty uses over 250 brilliantly chosen photographs, drawings, and vintage a·ds.to demonstrate how the design of objects reaches far beyond a slavish. dependency on function and indeed has a profound cultural significance that has fueled every era's image of itself and of its station in the world.
年:
1987
出版社:
Pantheon
语言:
english
页:
257
ISBN 10:
0394751515
ISBN 13:
9780394751511
文件:
PDF, 121.20 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1987