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Design and national identity / Javier Gimeno-Martínez.

By: Gimeno Martínez, Javier [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1472591038 (paperback); 9781472591036 (paperback); 9781472591043 (hardback); 1472591046 (hardback).Subject(s): Design -- Political aspects | Nationalism | Nationalism and artDDC classification: 745.2
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: Primordialism: Nations as Perennial Entities -- National Character -- Rethinking National Romanticism -- Logic of National Design -- Part Two: Modernism: Top-down Approaches to National Identity -- National Symbols and the State -- Government Branding -- Design as a Matter of State -- Part Three: Nationalism from Below: Bottom-up Approaches to National Identity -- Nation and the Familiar -- Trafficking the National -- Is Multiculturalism the New Vernacular? -- Conclusion.
Summary: "This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey. This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the `national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalization, migration and cultural diversity." -- Back cover.
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This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design.

Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey.

This illuminating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the 'national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalisation, migration and cultural diversity.

Javier Gimeno-Martinez is Lecturer in Design Cultures at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.

Introduction -- Part One: Primordialism: Nations as Perennial Entities -- National Character -- Rethinking National Romanticism -- Logic of National Design -- Part Two: Modernism: Top-down Approaches to National Identity -- National Symbols and the State -- Government Branding -- Design as a Matter of State -- Part Three: Nationalism from Below: Bottom-up Approaches to National Identity -- Nation and the Familiar -- Trafficking the National -- Is Multiculturalism the New Vernacular? -- Conclusion.

"This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: the distinctive characteristics of a nation's output, and the consumption of design products within a country as a means of generating a national design landscape. Using case studies ranging from stamps in nineteenth century Russian-occupied Finland, to Coca-Cola as an 'American' drink in modern Trinidad and Tobago, he addresses concepts of essentialism, constructivism, geography and multiculturality, and considers the works of key theorists, including Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Doreen Massey. This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive account of how national identity and cultural policy have shaped design, while suggesting that traditional formations of the `national' are increasingly unsustainable in an age of globalization, migration and cultural diversity." -- Back cover.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Javier Gimeno-Martínez is an assistant professor at the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His work has been published in various jounals including 'Interiors' and 'Design and Culture', and he has contributed chapters to several edited volumes.