David Crowley

İletişim Tarihi

Nico MacDonald

A unique look at how popular music and culture have influenced the evolution of British design.

Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties

Communicate

Paul Heyer

Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

Technology, Culture, Society

Communication in History

Paul Jobling

This is an inventive a well-researched study which explores the production and consumption of graphic design in Europe.

Reproduction and Representation Since 1800

Graphic Design

Originally published in 1983. The conventions, institutions and practices of communication today are issues of great concern to all. Using a dual approach, this book evaluates communication today in all its facets. On the one hand, an investigation of communication can be viewed as an intellectual task -thus emphasizing basic issues of the human condition; on the other hand, communication can be examined in a practical manner, in the context of current social problems, operational decisions, and questions currently facing researchers. This text brings these two together so that the practical issues of communication can be viewed as they relate to the human condition itself.

The Signifying Web

Understanding Communication

Susan E. Reid

Much has been written about the workings of communist governments in the USSR and the Soviet bloc, yet there is still a great deal to explore regarding their relationship to the everyday lives of the citizens living under them. This third volume builds on the editors’ Style and Socialism and Socialist Spaces, showing how the rise of consumer culture took a unique form in these countries. Essays from top scholars address topics ranging from fashion and game shows to smoking and camping. The authors of the essays in this collection investigate the ways in which pleasurable activities, like many other facets of daily life, were both a space in which these communist governments tried to insinuate themselves and thereby further expand the reach of their authority, and also an opportunity for people to assert their individuality.

Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc

Pleasures in Socialism

Paul Jobling & David Crowley

This fascinating book takes as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people in Eastern Europe. It provides a revealing window through which to examine the interaction between official state rhetoric and state command on the one hand, and the popular applications of the state's material products on the other. From street fashion to modern art, from the design of state buildings to wallpaper, interconnections between politics and ideology, cultural policy formation and consumption are shown to be a matter of complex negotiation.

Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe

Style and Socialism

This work explores the representation, meanings and uses of space in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The essays investigate the extent to which actual spaces conformed to the dominant political order in the region.

Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Socialist Spaces

Part of the "Topographics" series, David Crowley's study presents a cultural and architectural history of post-war Warsaw.

Warsaw

Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style

National Style and Nation-state

Jane Pavitt

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.

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