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Michael G Thompson and Clare Monagle
The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 861–888, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae183
Published: 06 September 2024
... for the earth, which they in turn were helping to nurture and manage. 23 One might also ask about the Forest Service and Wilderness Society, and whether the socialism of Bob Marshall and others intersected with religious thought in the 1930s. 24 For this essay, however, it is more than...
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Caroline Elenowitz-Hess
Journal of Design History, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 232–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad002
Published: 21 June 2023
... and consumer goods suggests that Americans did not want to recognize the dissonance between the way that they wore the swastika and the symbol in its German context. This distinction began to disintegrate in the mid-1930s, as conflict over the use of the symbol revealed fracture lines between those affected...
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Ofer Ashkenazi
The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1606–1634, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac355
Published: 24 January 2023
... consider here private photographs of Jews in Germany of the 1930s. While the Jewish experience in the face of Nazism is hardly an overlooked topic, I argue that analysis of private photography discloses intricacies that have been disregarded or marginalized by historians. In particular, Jewish...
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Alborz Dianat
Journal of Design History, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 141–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epac041
Published: 25 October 2022
...Alborz Dianat Aalto Alvar 1930s interwar plywood modernism furniture In November 1933, Alvar Aalto opened an exhibition of his furniture to a captivated London audience. The architect, previously little-known outside of his native Finland, was to spring into international recognition...
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Robert Gordon-Fogelson
Journal of Design History, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 70–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab029
Published: 22 July 2021
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) The concept of ‘integration’, defined in the 1930s as ‘the composition of a whole […] by combining the separate parts’, pervaded midcentury society, from the theorization of perceptual wholes...
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Erin McKellar
Journal of Design History, Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 50–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz024
Published: 24 May 2019
... professionals began anticipating the post-war world through a process of planning that extended from the dwelling to its place within the region. 30 From the very beginning, planning for the post-war years meant positioning children as key to the nation’s development. Throughout the 1930s...
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Sabrina Rahman
Journal of Design History, Volume 32, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 340–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz015
Published: 20 May 2019
.... Werkbund designers such as Josef Frank, Paul Fischel, Heinrich Kulka, Adolf Loos, Heinz Siller and Oskar Wlach were thus well positioned to contribute to the programme of eclectic decoration that was sponsored by the social democratic welfare initiatives of 1920s and 1930s Vienna. 1930s Austrian Werkbund...
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Jessica Kelly
Journal of Design History, Volume 29, Issue 4, 1 November 2016, Pages 350–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw025
Published: 14 September 2016
... activities and changes in Britain before the Second World War. 1930s architecture British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) design criticism magazines modernism In March 1935 The Architectural Review (AR) included a new column entitled ‘Criticism’, written by Professor Charles Herbert...
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Glenn Hooper
Journal of Design History, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 368–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epv018
Published: 25 May 2015
...Glenn Hooper E-mail: [email protected] Glenn Hooper is a lecturer in the Department of Social Science, Media and Journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University. He researches in the areas of design history, heritage and tourism. 1930s Arts and Crafts Design Reform Movement furniture London...
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Ute Engel
Journal of Design History, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 15–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epu010
Published: 17 April 2014
... that Pevsner applied to support the Modern Movement in England in the 1930s and to secure his own position as one of its leading interpreters. 1920s 1930s aesthetics architecture architectural theory Bauhaus design industry Le Corbusier modernism Nikolaus Pevsner Walter Gropius When Nikolaus...
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Helena Čapková
Journal of Design History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages 370–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epu009
Published: 03 April 2014
... as a component of the larger network of 1930s Japanese modernity in architecture and design confirms that one cannot capture this transnational landscape properly unless one considers the hybrid and productive outcomes shared by a network of artists involved. The analysis presents a number of networks...
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Carolyn L. Kane
Journal of Design History, Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 256–277, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epu003
Published: 21 February 2014
... in 1968. 1930s 1960s aesthetics colour Day-Glo design materiality Switzer Brothers Day-Glo fluorescent colours are like no other colours on the planet [. . .] We make them like this. Day-Glo Corporation, 1999 1 To want substance in cognition is to want utopia. Theodor Adorno, 1957...
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Michael J. Golec
Journal of Design History, Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 401–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/ept028
Published: 13 August 2013
... in the mid-nineteenth century, to distinguish pictorial symbols discovered in the American west from hieroglyphs known to have originated in ancient Egypt. The term was taken up in the 1930s to refer to pictorial representations of statistical data, as Modley states in How to Use Pictorial...
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Michael Tymkiw
Journal of Design History, Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 362–380, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/eps060
Published: 16 January 2013
... of the exhibited mass-produced housewares and decorative objects, the inclusion of these goods directed workers’ demand, as consumers, toward products made by ideologically compliant, ‘racially pure’ manufacturers—a process that companies hosting the exhibitions facilitated largely out of self-interest. 1930s...
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Tijana Vujosevic
Journal of Design History, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 270–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/eps035
Published: 30 September 2012
...Tijana Vujosevic This is a quote from an account by a worker by the name of Gertner about his experience of working on the Moscow Metro in the mid-1930s. It is an account of extreme technological rapture experienced in the metropolitan burrows, an account of a parallel life of trance lived below...
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Martin Powell
Social History of Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 245–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/sochis/hki032
Published: 01 August 2005
... existing estimates of the geographical distribution of medical staff, and produces data to examine the distribution at local level across England and Wales in the 1930s. On the one hand, the analysis confirms the conventional wisdom that richer, southern areas tended to have more doctors than poorer...
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Christian Bonah
Social History of Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 2, August 2002, Pages 187–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/15.2.187
Published: 01 August 2002
... of Medicine 2002 2002 Abstract In 1930, the large‐scale introduction of the BCG vaccination in the city of Lübeck in northern Germany led to a major scandal that focused public attention on medical experimentation with human beings as well as reviving criticism of the medical profession that had been voiced...
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Karin Hiscock
Journal of Design History, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/13.3.193
Published: 01 September 2000
... of John Betjeman while he was assistant editor at The Architectural Review between 1930 and 1935. By bringing his personal opinion at this time to the manner in which he exercises his influence, it is possible to reveal the complexity of loyalties and priorities that appear to 'compromise' his expected...
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JAMES THOMAS and A. SUSAN WILLIAMS
Social History of Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 1998, Pages 283–309, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/11.2.283
Published: 01 August 1998
...JAMES THOMAS; A. SUSAN WILLIAMS © Oxford University Press 1998 © 1998 The Sociayfor the Social History of Mediant Women and Abortion in 1930s Britain: A Survey and its Data ByJAMES THOMAS AND A. SUSAN WILLIAMS* SUMMARY...
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JOHN MOHAN
Social History of Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 2, August 1997, Pages 243–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/10.2.243
Published: 01 August 1997
... by the Commissioners can be seen as neglected antecedents of the regionalism detected in British hospital policy by several commentators. Commissioners for the Special Areas regionalism hospital provision state intervention voluntary provision 1930s © 1997 lite Society for the Soda! History of Medicine...