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“... the anarcho-feminist artist Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) caused a scandal with her painting God Giving Birth in which God was depicted as a black woman giving birth.”
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
“From Town Plan to Cutlery (Från stadsplan till matbestick) was the evocative title of a Swedish exhibition held in Zürich in 1949. It can be viewed as a symbol of the 1950’s dream of being able to design everything in society and in everyday life – down to the smallest detail.”
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
“Contemporary historians have shown how extensive the sterilization project was in Sweden and that it was officially sanctioned. Sweden was also one of the pioneering countries when it came to racial biology with a State Institute of Racial Biology founded already in 1922 in Uppsala. These few examples testify to a complex biopolitical scenography that goes against the myth of Sweden as a progressive, cosmopolitan, and ‘neutral’ country.”
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
“... the goal was not only to study the layout of apartments and interiors, but also to educate people in how to furnish their apartments in a functional way with high-quality furniture.”
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
― Swedish Art History : A Selection of Introductory Texts
“Ресурсы безрассудно расходуются, потребителей поощряют обновлять и заменять имущество с невероятнйо частотой. Устойчивое развитие — это повторное использование, сокращение и переработка, и этого можно достичь, сделав лишь незначительные изменения в нашей манере покупательского поведения: не заменять надежные эл. устр-ва без крайней необходимости, обставлять жилища старинными или бывшими в употребении вещами, проверять, что предметы, которые мы все-таки покупаем, высокого качества, а следовательно, прослужат долго.”
― The Story of Design
― The Story of Design
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