Research Catalog

Title

Made in Canada : craft and design in the sixties / edited by Alan C. Elder.

Publication

Montréal : Published for Design Exchange, Toronto in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Civilization by McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Elder, Alan C., 1955-
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Design Exchange (Firm)

Description

xiv, 128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), port.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Design > Canada > History > 20th century
• Design > Government policy > Canada > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• "Notes" (chiefly bibliographical): p. [117]-128.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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. Design to be modern : Canada's taste for Scandinavian design in the sixties / Michael Prokopow -- 8. When counterculture went mainstream / Alan C. Elder.

ISBN

• 0773528733 (pbk.) :
• 9780773528734 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006411733

OCLC

• 56805107
• SCSB-11562573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library