Design : introduction à l'histoire d'une discipline | Alexandra Midal

Design : introduction à l'histoire d'une discipline

EAN : 9782266190329

Code sériel : 322

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 208

Size : 120 x 180 mm

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Design

Alexandra Midal

Collection : Agora

Release date : 05/11/2009

An Introduction to the History of a Discipline.

Design today is too often spontaneously associated with “object”. However, from the kitchen organization elaborated by Catharine Beecher in the United States in 1840 to the European
Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century, design has progressively emerged and spread out into an art of its own, such as... Design today is too often spontaneously associated with “object”. However, from the kitchen organization elaborated by Catharine Beecher in the United States in 1840 to the European
Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century, design has progressively emerged and spread out into an art of its own, such as fine arts and architecture. Indeed, design was born as a response to industrialization and the failures it bears and aims to reconcile art and life.
Based on an absolute belief in an object’s power to permanently transform and improve the world we live in, the author demonstrates the ways in which design has proposed to reform political, social and artistic circles and how it has, in certain cases, become a genuine political tool.
Split between its fascination for technology and the repulsion that it engenders, design remains a commitment to a better world.

• A new and innovative light on the ideas and major movements in design, from a specialist
in the field.
• A complete introduction to the subject with mass appeal, destined to become a classic.
• Etymology, dualities, contradictions: Alexandra Midal clarifies and sheds light on the major
stages in the evolution of design.
• From William Morris to today, with reference to Bauhaus or Streamline, Alexandra Midal
offers a stimulating and pertinent read of the history of design, the ideas that have formed it.