[ePub] The Soul of Pleasure: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment by David Monod at Arts-Photography

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A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Hesketts key works; introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons; the New School; USA.Heskett; who passed away in early 2014; was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. His research was foundational for the study of industrial design; and his research into the relationship between design; policy and economic value is still a regular reference-point for academics and students alike. This anthology represents well the great range of his work; covering such varied topics as the growth of Japanese industrialism; modernism in the Third Reich; and 1980s corporate design management. Including both hard-to-access and previously unpublished material like Crafts; Commerce and Industry and Economic Value of Design; the book demonstrates Hesketts passionate interest in exploring the relationship of design and making with economic value across the entirety of human history.Featured texts include; What is Design; Chinese Design: what can we learn from the past?; The American System and Mass Production; The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel; Creative Destruction: the nature and consequences of change through design; Reflections on Design and Hong Kong; besides many others.