The Authority of Everyday Objects.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Design, the Cold War, and West German Culture -- 1. Re-Enchanting the Commodity: Nazi Modernism Reconsidered -- 2. The Conscience of the Nation: The New German Werkbund -- 3. The Nierentisch Nemesis: The Promise and Peril of Organic Design -- 4. Design and Its Discontents: The Ulm Institute of Design -- 5. Design, Liberalism, and the State: The German Design Council -- 6. Coming in from the Cold: Design and Domesticity -- CONCLUSION: Memory and Materialism: The Return of History as Design -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.