Designing modernity. The arts of reform and persuasion, 1885-1945. Selections from the Wolfsonian.

Contents: Director’s Preface, by Peggy Loar; Sponsor’s Statement; Acknowledgments; Explanatory Notes for Captions and Checklist; Confronting Modernity (Traditions Transformed: Romantic Nationalism in Design, 1890-1920, by Wendy Kaplan; Germany Design and National Identity, 1890-1930, by Ellinoor Bergvelt; The English Compromise: Modern Design and National Consciousness, 1870-1940, by Paul Greenhalgh); Cecebrating Modernity (Domesticating Modernity: Ambivalence and Appropriation, 1920-1940, by Jeffrey L. Meikle; Forging Modern Italy: From Wrought Iron to Aluminum, by Irene de Guttry & Maria Paola Maino; A “Return to Order”: Issues of the Vernacular and the Classical in Italian Inter-War Design, by Marianne Lamonaca); Manipulating Modernity: Political Persuasion (Political Things: Design in Fascist Italy, by Dennis P. Doordan; Design in Inter-War Germany, by John Heskett; Emblems of Production: Workers in German, Italian, and American Art during the 1930s, by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.); Checklist of Exhibition Objects; Contributors; Photograph Credits; Index.