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Clean new world : culture, politics, and graphic design / Maud Lavin.

By: Lavin, Maud.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001Description: xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0262122375.Subject(s): Commercial art | Graphic arts -- Social aspects | Graphic arts -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 741.6
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: Modernism -- Heartfield in context -- For love, modernism or money: Kurt Schwitters and the circle of new advertising designers -- ringl + pit: The representation of women in german advertising, 1929-33 -- Part Two: Post-World War II and Today -- U.S. Design in the Service of Commerce-and alternatives -- New traditionalism and corporate identity -- Collectivism in the decade of greed: Political Art Coalitions in the 1980s in New York City -- Portfolio: Women and design -- A baby and a coat hanger: Visual Propaganda in the U.S. Abortion debate -- Part Three: The internet -- Dirty work and clean faces: The look of intelligent agents on the internet -- Confessions from The Couch: Issues of Persona on the Web.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00105734
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce. Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Many corporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companies the look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, they often end up simply veiling it.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part One: Modernism -- Heartfield in context -- For love, modernism or money: Kurt Schwitters and the circle of new advertising designers -- ringl + pit: The representation of women in german advertising, 1929-33 -- Part Two: Post-World War II and Today -- U.S. Design in the Service of Commerce-and alternatives -- New traditionalism and corporate identity -- Collectivism in the decade of greed: Political Art Coalitions in the 1980s in New York City -- Portfolio: Women and design -- A baby and a coat hanger: Visual Propaganda in the U.S. Abortion debate -- Part Three: The internet -- Dirty work and clean faces: The look of intelligent agents on the internet -- Confessions from The Couch: Issues of Persona on the Web.