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Design for Stage and Screen: General History of Design & Material Culture

General History of Design & Material Culture

◼ Aynsley, Jeremy and Kate Forde (eds). Design and the Modern Magazine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Call number: 741.652 DES

◼ Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. London: Doubleday, 2003. Call number: 500 BRY

◼ De Botton, Alain. Status Anxiety. London: Penguin, 2005. Call number: 158.2 DEB

◼ Dormer, Peter. Design since 1945. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Call number: 745.4442 DOR 

◼ Duncan. Alastair. Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940. Suffolk, Englan, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1998. Call number: 745.4441 DUN

◼ Forty, Adrian and Susanne Kuchler (eds) The Art of Forgetting. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1999. Call number: 306.47 ART

◼ Forty, Adrian. Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Call number: 745.20903 FOR

◼ Forty, Adrian. Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000. Call number: 720.108 FOR

◼ Gregson, Nicky and Louise Crewe (eds). Second-Hand Cultures. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. Call number: 381.19 GRE

◼ Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (eds.) Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain London: Hutchinson, 1976. Call number: 301.4315 RES

◼ Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen & Co, 1979. eBook

◼ Highmore, Ben (ed). Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Call number: 306 HIG

◼ Highmore, Ben (ed). The Everyday Life Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Call number: 306.221 EVE 

◼ Highmore, Ben (ed). The Design Culture Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Call number: 745.4 DES

◼ Jenks, Chris. Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social. California: Sage, 2005. Call number: 306.1 JEN

◼ Julier, Guy. The Culture of Design. London: Sage, 2000. Call number: 745.2 JUL

◼ Kwint, Marius, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aynsley (eds) Material Memories. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1999. Call number: 306 KWI

◼ Miller, Daniel (ed.) Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Call number: 339.47 CON

◼ Miller, Daniel (ed.) Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Call number: 306 MIL

◼ Miller, Daniel. Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective. New York: Berg, 2009. eBook

◼ Miller, Daniel. Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Oxford: Berg, 1987. Call number: 930.1 MIL

◼ Moran, Anna and Sorcha O’Brien (eds.) Love Objects. London: Bloomsbury Books, 2014. Call number: 152.4 LOV

◼ Pastoureau, Michel.  Black: The History of A Color. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2008. Call number: 155.91145 PAS

◼ Polhemus, Ted. Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. Call number: 391.00904 POL

◼ Poulin, Richard. Graphic Design and Architecture: A 20th century history: A guide to type, image, symbol and visual storytelling in the modern world. Beverly: Rockport Publishers, 2012. eBook

◼ Sparke, Penny. An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Call number: 745.4442 SPA

◼ Sudjic, Deyan. The Language of Things. London: Allen Lane, 2008. Call number: 741.401 SUD

◼ Turkle, Sherry (ed.) Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007. Call number: 155.9 EVO

 Turkle, Sherry (ed.) The Inner History of Devices. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2008. Call number: 303.483 TURAlso available as an eBook

◼ Veblen, Thorstein The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899, reprinted Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998. Call number: 305.5234 VEB

◼ Woodham, Jonathan. Twentieth Century Design. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Call number: 745.4442 WOO