Design History and the History of Design

Type

Book

Authors

John A. Walker

ISBN 10

0745302742

ISBN 13

9780745302744

Tags

Interior Design, History, Decorating

Description

An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design. Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture. - from Amzon

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