Design History  

This List covers major reference works in the following areas:

Industrial Revolution
Gothic Revival
Arts and Crafts Movement
Art Nouveau/Secession/Jugendstill
Expressionism
International Style
Bauhaus
Post War
Exhibitions

Industrial Revolution

Ashton, T.S. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830.
London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Raymond Walters HC255.A8 1969

Briggs, Asa. The Age of Improvement: 1783-1867.
London: Longmans, 1959.
Langsam DA530.B68

Checkland, S.G. The Rise of Industrial Society
in England, 1815-1885.

London: Longmans1964.
Langsam HC255.C5

Henderson, W.O. Britain and Industrial Europe
1750-1870: Studies in British Influence on the
Industrial Revolution in Western Europe.

2nd ed. Leichester: Leichester UP, 1995.
Langsam HC240.H46 1965

Klingender, F.D. Art and the Industrial Revolution.
New York: Schocken Books, 1970.
Raymond Walters N8218.K55 1970

 

Gothic Revival

Clark, Kenneth. The Gothic Revival: An Essay on the
History of Taste.

Harmondsworthe Middlesex Eng.: Penguin, 1964.
DAAP NA610.C5 1964

Germann, George. Gothic Revival in Europe and
Britain: Sources, Influences and Ideas.

London: Lund Humphries, 1972.
DAAP NA610.G4713

Macauley, James. The Gothic Revival, 1745-1845.
Glasgow: Blackie, 1975.
DAAP NA966.M32

Pugin et al. The True Principles of Pointed or Christian
Architecture.

London: Academy Editions; New York: St. Martin's Press,
1973.
DAAP Oversize NA440.P9 1973

 

Arts and Crafts Movement

Callen, Anthea. Angel in the Studio.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.
DAAP Oversize NK1149.5 C34 1979

Naylor, Gillian. The Arts and Crafts Movement: a Study
of it's Sources, Ideal and Influence on Design Theory.

Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1971.

Triggs, Oscar Lovell. Chapters in the History of the Arts
and Crafts Movement.

Chicago: Bohemia Guild of the Industrial Art League, 1902.
DAAP NK1140.T8

 

Art Nouveau/Secession/Jugendstill

Borsi, Franco. Victor Horta.
London: Academy Editions, 1991.
DAAP Oversize Reference NA1173.H6 B613 1991

Gillon, Edmund V. Art Nouveau: An Anthology of Design
Illustration From "The Studio."

NY: Dover Publications, 1969.
DAAP Picture Reference N6465.A7 G5

Graham, F. Lanier. Hector Guimard.
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.
Catalogue of an Exhibition.
DAAP NA1053.G8 G7

Madsen, Stephan Tschudi. Sources of Art Nouveau.
NY: Da Capo Press, 1976. Facsimile reprint of Ed.
H. Auschehoug, 1956.
DAAP Reference N6465.A7 M33 1976

Pevsner, Nikolaus ed. The Anti-Rationalists.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
DAAP N6465.A7 A63y 1973b

Royal Academy of the Arts. Vienna Secession.
Art Nouveau to 1970 Catalogue of an Exhibition
Held at the Royal Academy of Arts.
London, 9 Jan. - 7 Mar. 1971.
London: RA, 1971. OhioLINK

 

Expressionism

Haftmann, Werner et. al. German Art of the Twentieth Century.
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1957.
DAAP N6868.N38

Pehnt, Wolfgang. Expressionist Architecture.
NY: Praeger, 1973.
DAAP NA682.E9 P4313 1973

 

International Style

Giedion, Sigfried. Space Time and Architecture: The Growth
of a New Tradition.
5th ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.
DAAP NA203.G5 1967

LeCorbusier. Towards a New Architecture.
London: Architectural Press; NY: Praeger, 1946.
DAAP NA2520.J4

Mumford, Lewis. Art and Techniques.
NY: Columbia University Press, 1960.
OhioLINK

Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of Modern Design. 2nd ed.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.
DAAP N6450.P47 1960

 

Bauhaus

Bayer, Herbert. Bauhaus 1919-1928. NY: Museum of Modern Art;
Boston: distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1975.
DAAP N332.D4 B3 1975

Naylor, Gilian. The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design
Theory.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1985.
DAAP N332.B38 N32 1985

Wingler, Hans M. The Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago.
Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1969.
Originally published by Das Bauhaus, 1919-1933, 1968.
DAAP Oversize N332.B38 W52
DAAP Stacks N332. B38 W52 (Library Use Only)

 

Post WWII

Architectural Review. November 1977, vol. 162, no. 969,
pages 261-318. ed by Stephen Bayley.
(Special Issue) Living in Britain 1952-1977.
DAAP Bound Periodicals

Design. no. 309, September 1974, pages 62-72. Brutton, Mark.
"Utility c1941: How a Wartime Government Hired it's
Own Designers."
DAAP Bound Periodicals

Hillier, Bevis. Austerity Binge: The Decorative Arts of the
Forties and Fifties.

London: Studio Vista, 1975.
DAAP N6493 1940 .H54 1975b

Penrose Annual 1954. Pages 24-27.
Reilly, Paul. "The Maturing Taste of Mid-Century."
OhioLINK

Studio. vol 121, 1941, pages 108-123.
Fraser, Grace Lovat. "British Design for Spring Export."
OhioLINK

 

Exhibitions

Allwood, John. The Great Exhibitions.
London: Studio Vista, 1977.
DAAP T395.A44 1977

Architectural Review. Vol. 110, no. 656, August 1951,
pages 71-148. Special Issue on the South Bank Exhibition.
DAAP Bound Periodicals

"The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition."
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1867: PARIS).
London: Virtue, 1867.
DAAP Rare Book Oversize N4801.A9 (Library Use Only)

Jullian, Phillipe. "The Triumphe of Art Nouveau:
Paris Exhibition 1900."

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1900 (1900: PARIS)
NY: Larousse, 1974.
DAAP N6850.J8413 1974

 

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