Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse - Softcover

Fallan, Kjetil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138316121 ISBN 13: 9781138316126

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation's material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, Designing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway's new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.

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About the Author

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History at the University of Oslo, Norway

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138316121
• ISBN 13: 9781138316126
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224