Made in Canada : craft and design in the sixties
Record details
- ISBN: 6612863404
- ISBN: 9786612863400
- ISBN: 9781282863408
- ISBN: 1282863401
- ISBN: 0773572740
- ISBN: 9780773572744
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait
remote - Publisher: Montréal : Published for Design Exchange, Toronto in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Civilization by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | "Notes" (chiefly bibliographical) : pages [117]-128. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface / Douglas Coupland -- Foreword : design exchange / Samantha Sannella -- Foreword : Canadian Museum of Civilization / Victor Rabinovitch -- Introduction : Canada in the sixties : "It can do almost anything" / Alan C. Elder -- 1. When "la Dolce Vita" met "true Canadianism" : Canadian airports in the sixties / Bernard Flaman -- 2. "Instant world" : Canada and space-age design in the sixties / Rachel Gotlieb -- 3. A flag for Canada / Michael Large -- 4. Excellence, inventiveness, and variety : Canadian fine crafts at Expo 67 / Sandra Alfoldy -- 5. Habitat '67 : view from the inside / Paul Bourassa -- 6. Capsules : plastic and utopia / Brent Cordner -- 7. Deign to be modern : Canada's taste for Scandinavian design in the sixties / Michael Prokopow -- 8. When counterculture went mainstream / Alan C. Elder. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Nineteen sixties Design -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Design -- Canada -- History -- 20th century |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. Aufsatzsammlung. |