Description
Book SynopsisGlobalism 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 place these concrete things into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Among the varied topics included are:
- the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture
- the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century
- the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of import substitution'
- German design in the context of empire
- handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey
- Australian fashions employing ethnic' motifs
- an experimental UK-Ghanaian design partnership
- Chinese
Table of Contents
Selected Contents: Preface Introduction: Towards Global Design History Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson 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 2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections Anne Gerritsen Response by Beverly Lemire 3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 John Styles Response by Prasannan Parthasarathi 4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan Christine M. E. Guth Response by Maxine Berg 5. The Globalization of the Fashion City Christopher Breward Response by Simona Segre Reinach 6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions Dipti Bhagat Response by Angus Lockyer 7. ‘From the Far Corners’: Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s Michael J. Golec Response by Anne Balsamo 8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 John Maciuika Response by Paul Betts 9. Where in the World is Design?: The Case of India, 1900-1945 Victor Margolin Response by Christopher Pinney 10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design Gyökan Karakus Response by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. 11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design Peter McNeil Response by Shehnaz Suterwalla 12. Analyzing Social Networking Websites: The Design of Happy Network in China Basile Zimmermann Response by Ngai-Ling Sum 13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture Jilly Traganou Response by Lucia Allais 14. e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market Tom Barker and Ashley Hall Response by Shannon May Bibliography Resource Guide
