Lifestyle Revolution - How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain

Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines - as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

About the author

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His books include The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain (2017) and The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House (2014).

Summary

Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines – as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Ben Highmore, Highmore Ben
• Assisted by: Christopher Breward (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781526108821
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0882-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, DESIGN / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Economic history, History of Art, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Art & design styles: from c 1960