Material virtues: On the ideal and the real in design history

Journal of Design History

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-199

  Meikle, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Baker, Nicholson; Consumption; Design education; Design history; Design History Society; Product design

Indexed keywords

EID: 12244296574     PISSN: 09524649     EISSN: 17417279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jdh/11.3.191     Document Type: Review

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28. D. Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, 1985.