1st Edition

Global Design History

Edited By Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, Sarah Teasley Copyright 2011
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale. They... Read more

Preface  Introduction: Towards Global Design History Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson  Chapter 1. The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of a Community of Taste Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Luca Molà  Response by Dana Leibsohn  Chapter 2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections Anne Gerritsen  Response by Beverly Lemire  Chapter 3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 John Styles  Response by Prasannan Parthasarathi  Chapter 4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan Christine M. E. Guth  Response by Maxine Berg  Chapter 5. The Globalization of the Fashion City Christopher Breward  Response by Simona Segre Reinach  Chapter 6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions Dipti Bhagat  Response by Angus Lockyer  Chapter 7. ‘From the Far Corners’ : Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s Michael J. Golec  Response by Anne Balsamo  Chapter 8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 John Maciuika  Response by Paul Betts  Chapter 9. Where in the World is Design? : The Case of India, 1900-1945 Victor Margolin  Response by Christopher Pinney  Chapter 10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design Gyökan Karakus  Response by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.  Chapter 11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design Peter McNeil  Response by Shehnaz Suterwalla  Chapter 12. Analyzing Social Networking Web Sites: The Design of Happy Network in China Basile Zimmermann  Response by Ngai-Ling Sum  Chapter 13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture Jilly Traganou  Response by Lucia Allais  Chapter 14. e-Artisans: contemporary design for the global market Tom Barker and Ashley Hall  Response by Shannon May  Bibliography  Resource Guide

Biography

Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate programme in the History of Design. He is co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, and author of Thinking Through Craft (2007) and The Craft Reader (2010).

Giorgio Riello is Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of A Foot in the Past (2006) and has recently co-edited The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850 (2009) and The Fashion History Reader (2010).

Sarah Teasley is Tutor in the History of Design and Liaison Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is co-author of 20th Century Design History (2005), and a specialist in the history of design for mass production in modern Japan.