Barcelona and Madrid social networks of the Avant-Garde / by Arenas, Aránzazu Ascunce, 1974-

Subjects: “…Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Spain Barcelona History 20th century.…”
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Designing One Nation : The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany, 1945-1990 / by Schreiter, Katrin

Table of Contents: “…Form Follows Function: Industrial Design and the Emergence of Postwar Economic Culture -- Producing Modern German Homes: The Economy of National Branding -- Intra-German Trade and the Aesthetic Dialectic of European Integration -- From Competition to Cooperation: Cold War Diplomacy of German Design -- Conservative Modernity: The Reception of Functionalism in German Living Rooms.…”
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Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”
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