Global Design History

<p>Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history. <em>Global Design History</em> moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. </p><p>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: </p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>the global underpinnings of Renaissance material culture</li> <li>the trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth-century</li> <li>the Japanese tea ceremony as a case of ‘import substitution’ </li> <li>German design in the context of empire </li> <li>handcrafted modernist furniture in Turkey </li> <li>Australian fashions employing ‘ethnic’ motifs </li> <li>an experimental UK-Ghanaian design partnership</li> <li>Chinese social networking websites </li> <li>the international circulation of contemporary architects.</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>Featuring work from leading design historians, each chapter is paired with a ‘response’, designed to expand the discussion and test the methodologies on offer. An extensive bibliography and resource guide will also aid further research, providing students with a user friendly model for approaches to global design. </p><p><em>Global Design History </em>will be useful for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and researchers in design history and art history, and related subjects such as anthropology, craft studies and cultural geography.</p> <p><strong>Selected Contents:</strong> Preface Introduction: Towards Global Design History <em>Sarah Teasley, Giorgio Riello, and Glenn Adamson</em> 1. The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of a Community of Taste <em>Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Luca Molà</em> Response by <em>Dana Leibsohn </em> 2. Global Design in Jingdezhen: Local Production and Global Connections <em>Anne Gerritsen </em>Response by <em>Beverly Lemire </em>3. Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800 <em>John Styles </em>Response by <em>Prasannan Parthasarathi </em>4. Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Japan <em>Christine M. E. Guth </em>Response by <em>Maxine Berg </em> 5. The Globalization of the Fashion City <em>Christopher Breward </em>Response by <em>Simona Segre Reinach </em>6. Performing White South African Identity through International and Empire Exhibitions <em>Dipti Bhagat</em> Response by <em>Angus Lockyer </em> 7. ‘From the Far Corners’: Telephones, Globalization, and the Production of Locality in the 1920s <em>Michael J. Golec </em>Response by <em>Anne Balsamo </em> 8. The Globalization of the Deutscher Werkbund: Design Reform, Industrial Policy, and German Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 <em>John Maciuika </em>Response by <em>Paul Betts </em> 9. Where in the World is Design?: The Case of India, 1900-1945 <em>Victor Margolin </em>Response by <em>Christopher Pinney </em>10. ‘Handmade Modernity’: A Case Study on Postwar Turkish Modern Furniture Design <em>Gyökan Karakus </em>Response by <em>Edward S. Cooke, Jr. </em>11. Old Empire and New Global Luxury: Fashioning Global Design <em>Peter McNeil </em>Response by <em>Shehnaz Suterwalla </em> 12. Analyzing Social Networking Websites: The Design of Happy Network in China <em>Basile Zimmermann </em>Response by <em>Ngai-Ling Sum </em> 13. From Nation-bound Histories to Global Narratives of Architecture <em>Jilly Traganou </em>Response by <em>Lucia Allais </em>14. e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market <em>Tom Barker and Ashley Hall </em>Response by <em>Shannon May </em>Bibliography Resource Guide</p>