DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Art and Design

Department of History of Art and Material Culture

HAMC 3105, Semester 1, 2002-2003

Module Leader: Emily Baines

 

 

CULTURAL IDENTITY

 

Contents

 

Introduction                                                                           

Aims and Learning Outcomes                                               

Teaching and Learning                                                          

Timetable                                                                                                 

Assessment:                                                                      

Notes On Assessment                                                

Deadlines                                                                     

Studentship                                                                  

Seminar Presentation                                                 

Research Report                                                         

Essay                                                                         

            Referencing and Bibliographies                        

Notes on Plagiarism                                               

Bibliography                                                                     

Appendix: Assessment Sheets                                     

 


Introduction

This module provides students with an opportunity to research and analyse their specialist discipline in relation to issues of identity. What does it mean to establish, find or construct an identity? How does a personal identity as a designer or maker relate to company or organisational identities, or to social and political identities? How is one culture affected by its relations of power and trade with other cultures? Are the perceptions of other cultures and groups significant in forming an identity? How does all this affect design, ways of designing and actual products? The module will introduce a broad range of cultural theory, relevant to current debate on issues of identity, nationality, gender, the body, virtual realities and consumption, as applied to design of interiors, product ranges, craft and the promotion of organisations. Postmodernism, and its theoretical approaches, acts as a basis for interpreting multiple voices and sites of identity. The module provides design students, and those with an interest in material culture and its display, with an opportunity to develop theoretical and critical perspectives. The aim is to provoke critical debate and a deeper insight into cultural identity and the social context of design.

 

Aims

·         To provide an opportunity for students to contextualise their studio work by examining the construction and development of cultural identities in relation to design.

·         To provide an opportunity for students to explore a wide range of cultural identities and design from different cultures and periods and to research in more detail an aspect that particularly interests them

·         To provide an opportunity to familiarise yourself with, and form a critical stance towards, the highly topical, multi-disciplinary theory of cultural studies and identity politics. This will provide an opportunity for students to develop knowledge that has a transferable theoretical basis, and will support academic work elsewhere in the curriculum.

·         To provide an opportunity for students to develop skills in the analysis of texts, design and theory; in the construction of arguments; and in academic quality writing and professional quality presentations.

 

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Learning Outcomes

As a result of studying this module, you should be able to:

·         Demonstrate an understanding of the range of theoretical perspectives used to explore the subject.

·         Demonstrate the skills to research a theme in depth and show a complex understanding of the subject researched.

·         Demonstrate understanding of a subject in ways that properly contextualise the issues (by referring to historical, political, social and economic factors).

·         Demonstrate professionalism in terms of the presentation and management of learning, commensurate with the level of study.

 

The module should aid you in developing personal and professional transferable skills, in addition to developing a knowledge base relevant to your specialist area. Communication skills developed include: writing and giving an effective presentation; analysis of academic and journalistic texts; writing an essay; developing ideas as a team and in seminar discussion. Research skills and information technology skills should also develop to a good academic and professional level.

 

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Teaching and Learning

The format of the module is based on the separate elements of lectures, seminars and personal tutorials. Formal lectures will be complemented with visits, workshop discussion and activities, videos and student presentations. The student is expected to read around the issues discussed in lectures (developing a familiarity with academic cultural theory) and to maintain an active interest in design literature and the media for discussion of relevant issues.

 

The module leader is Emily Baines, based in room G4.3G (telephone ext. 7417, email EBaines@dmu.ac.uk). Richard Fynes (office in G4.3D, at the end of the corridor) will also be teaching on the module. In addition, there will be visiting speakers and other lecturers from the HAMC department contributing to the lecture programme. Tutorial appointments can be booked in the seminar or on the list outside G4.3G. Notes to notify of absence, etc, can be put under the door of G4.3G or given to Kathleen Proffitt (the HAMC secretary) who will forward them to the staff pigeonholes. Her office is in G6.3H (telephone 0116 2506371). She is available in the afternoons: if a problem occurs in the morning, leave a phone message, email or talk to Jenny Jones in G6.2A.

 

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Timetable

Week 1 Lecture Introduction to module
  Seminar  
Week 2 Lecture Postmodernity, Power and Consumption
  Seminar Discussion of projects and introduction to text analysis
Week 3 Lecture National, Local and Ethnic Identity
  Seminar Research methods review
Week 4 Lecture Cultural Identity: Case Study of S. Asia
  Seminar Text analysis exercises
Week 5 Lecture Gender Identity
  Seminar Design Analysis; Workshop discussion
Week 6 Lecture Semiotics and Brand Identity
  Seminar Workshop discussion; Presentations
Week 7 Lecture Group Identity: Clubs, Sub-Cultures and Class
  Seminar Essay Discussion; Presentations
Week 8 Lecture Creative Identity and the Cult of the Designer
  Seminar Presentations; workshop on advertising/marketing
Week 9 Lecture Design: Disability and Cultural Sensitivity
  Seminar Presentations; workshop discussion on ethics and social inclusion in design
Week 10 Lecture The Home as a Site of Identity
  Seminar Case Study on Semiotics of Space in the Hindu Home
Week 11 Lecture Adornment and Identity
  Seminar Presentations; workshop discussion
Week 12 Lecture Representing Identity: Material Culture in the Contemporary Museum
  Seminar Presentations; Discussion

 

 

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Assessment

The assessed components of this module are:

 

 

Weighting

Seminar Presentation

30%

Research Report

10%

Essay

50%

Studentship

10%

 

For this semester (Semester 1, 2002-3), the research report, essay and studentship marks will be combined to make up the 70% coursework component shown on the module results forms. Assessment criteria for the presentation, report and essay is indicated in the mark sheets provided in Appendix A. Written work should be handed in for assessment at the Faculty Reception (Level One, above the Mezzanine, in the Fletcher Building). Make sure that a coversheet (with two coloured carbons) is attached to your work and is signed and dated by the Faculty receptionist. It should state the module leader (Emily Baines), module number (HAMC 3105), programme title (your degree: Surface Decoration, Design Management, etc) and the assignment title (essay or report). The work itself should also be clearly marked with your name, your module tutor, the module name and module code (in case the coversheet is lost). It is also important to keep a copy of your work.

 

If having problems with the work, see your module tutor before the deadline! If you are ill or have other personal difficulties, an extension can be arranged. Evidence of mitigating circumstances (such as a doctor’s note) should be provided, if possible. Students with dyslexia will also be given extensions, if needed. Note that if the work is late, without an extension, marks will be deducted according to HAMC regulations (10 marks deducted if within one week late: after one week, the work can be failed). If there are mitigating circumstances that resulted in non-completion of the module (e.g. essay not handed in or very late), the circumstances should be explained to the module tutor. An Extenuating Circumstances form must be filled in and relevant evidence forwarded to the Faculty committee via the Fletcher Faculty office. Check the deadline for these forms if there is any possibility of finding yourself in this situation! If the module is failed due to failure of the presentation, report or essay, you will be required to resubmit the failed work (if it is the presentation, a presentation report is submitted).

 

Deadlines

Research Report: 4/11/02 (Monday, Week 6)

Presentation: On the date specified by your seminar tutor. If the presentation is not given on the correct date, a later slot will be given. In this case, 10 marks will be deducted for lateness, unless an extension has been given due to illness or other serious mitigating circumstances.

Essay: 18/12/02 (Wednesday, Week 12)

 

Studentship

There is a 10% studentship mark to be awarded by your seminar tutor on the basis of attendance and active involvement in and contribution to the seminars. There will be preparation activities required for some seminars. Make sure that you sign your name at each lecture and that you are marked present for each seminar attended (check, if you were late). Doctor’s notes or evidence from third parties should be provided for any absences. Notes for the module tutor can be left at G4.3G or given to the HAMC secretary, to be placed in staff pigeonholes.

 

The three other assessed components should be considered as a elements of a personal research project, relating an aspect of or issues in cultural identity to design in your subject area.

 

Presentation

Analyse a text and present the issues to the group. This can be in a group of 2 or 3, each presenting analysis of separate texts, but based around a common issue. The issue(s) should be relevant to your research project. The texts can be chosen from the bibliography or from recent design journals. When choosing your text, look for articles in journals that are issue driven or academic: you are likely to find more substantial points that will more readily lend itself to discussion. Your individual analysis of a text should be about 10 minutes long.

 

A text analysis should cover:

Appraisal

1) In what form does the text appear - an article in a journal or newspaper, an essay in an anthology, a complete book or a book commissioned as part of a series? Note the details of publication, the author, and editor if a collection of essays or commissioning editor if part of a series; the title of work, and the book, journal or series in which it appears; date originally published and current edition of work if in book form, or details of journal number and date, if applicable. If originally published in a different form, state the details.

 

2) What is the subject position of the author, and the context in which the piece appears? For example, does the author speak as an expert in a particular discipline? Is the journal, book or series based on a particular discipline or theoretical approach? Who is the expected readership, and what level of expertise with the subject matter is assumed?

3) Give a précis of the main content and arguments of the text.

 

Analysis of Methodology

1) Identify the sources used. How much original research has the author undertaken for the piece? How reliable are the secondary sources used? Consider the depth and type of reading demonstrated by the bibliography, footnotes or endnotes and the text itself. How recent is the research depended on by the text?

 

2) How effective is the methodology used? What gaps are there in the evidence, and how reliable does this make the interpretation and conclusions? Are statistically irrelevant sample sizes used, or unproven assumptions in the approach used? What are the disadvantages in this method of analysing the material? Could the approach be used as a model for other research?

 

Analysis of Theory

Identify theoretical approaches used (feminist, post-colonial, postmodernist, psychological, anthropological, semiotic, etc.). How has the author analysed the material (e.g. under period, style, material, designer, etc.) and what are the key concepts used?

 

Critical Assessment

1) Does this analysis shed new light on the subject? Is the text innovative in any way? For example, it may use a theoretical approach or research method not previously applied in this context. Does it perpetuate conventional ideas or stereotypes without analysis or justification?

 

2) Are the arguments and presentation of evidence clear? Is sufficient evidence or illustrations given to support the arguments? What is the quality of referencing? Credit should be given to sources of data and ideas, to guard against the charge of plagiarism. Sufficient details of these sources should be given to allow the references to be followed up. Illustrations and graphical presentations of data should be given sources and explanation, if necessary.

 

3) What is the quality of the overall presentation - layout, typography, illustrations?

 

Once the text has been analysed, the issues should be brought out and their relevance to examples of recent design demonstrated. It is useful to bring OHPs of relevant examples or actual design objects (you can use your own studio work as examples, if appropriate). It should then lead into a wider discussion of the issues within the seminar group. Discussion points should be developed in your group, to stimulate analysis of the issue in the seminar. The main points arising from the paper and the discussion questions can be put on OHP or given out as a handout.

 

Research Report

This should include:

·         A statement of the subject (design area, exhibition, object/s or designer/s to be researched) and the issue to be examined. Will you use specific theorists?

·         Notes on a literature search of the issue and subject area chosen, demonstrating that thorough research has been undertaken and adequate material is available for a good essay to be written.

·         An essay plan, giving a broad structure of the argument.

 

A thorough literature search covers a range of search methods, e.g.:

a)     Printed reference indexes, bibliographies and dictionaries of design (available on Level 2 of the Kimberlin Library). Examples of general indexes are: Designers International Index (016.7454/DES), A Bibliography of Design in Britain 1851-1970 (016.74544942/COU), The Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers (745.03) and The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (745.03). Specialist bibliographies and indexes are also available: look through the collection to see which are relevant to you. Examples of these are: The Directory of Interior Design (747/DIR), British Advertising in the 1930s: a Bibliography (016.65910), International Guide to Literature on Film (011.32), Select Bibliography of Clothing Sources (016.687) and Needlework: a Selected Bibliography with special Reference to Embroidery and Needlepoint (016.7464/SES). Business sources such as Keynote Reports may be useful.

References to journals can be found in the journal collection on Level 4 of the Kimberlin Library, behind the annual indexes and slide collection. The availability of particular journals can be checked using the OPAC Serials Catalogue: some of the journal collection is kept in store, but can be collected for you. Newspaper articles are available on microfilm, in the cabinets by the Level 4 photocopiers.

b)   Electronic databases of article abstracts. A wide range of such databases can be accessed from the dmu library website, from the library computers. The most relevant design databases are DAAI, Art Abstracts and Artbibliographies Modern, but Proquest (for newspaper articles), PCI, Zetoc, MINTEL (business references) and World Textiles, among others, can be useful. Look through the lists to see whether there is a technology or subject-specific index relevant to your search. You will need to use your Athens password to access some of the databases on the network: for others you can only access them from DeMontfort University computers. The password should have come to your DMU email address automatically in your first year: if there is a problem, ask the library staff. Check the stand-alone computer on Floor 4 for the DAAI and Architectural Periodicals Index. You may find the printed annual indexes of design and newspapers useful, particularly if you have any trouble accessing the electronic databases. These are available on Level 4 of the Kimberlin Library, behind the slide library and current journals display.

c)       The OPAC system. Use the video catalogue as well as the general catalogue.

d)       Internet. Relevant websites can be found using a range of search engines and the ADAM gateway. There may be relevant archives of journal articles, image databases, etc. on the websites of specialist institutions, museums and publishers (e.g. the Crafts Council, the Embroiderers’ Guild, the Middlesex University MODA wallpaper and textile image database, Oxford University Press, etc.) or general art/ design database sites such as artnet.com, HELIX or Axis (which can be found via DMU library databases), the Virtual Design Museum at io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm or the Victorian Web at scholars.nus.edu/landow/victorian.

e)       Illustration sources may also be useful (slide library, illustration index, microfiche collection - filed among the slide folders - and topic boxes).

 

Essay

Choose one of the following essays. If none of the questions is appropriate to your research interest, a modified version can be agreed with the module leader. Particular examples of design should be analysed in relation to one key issue. Position the identity discussed in relation to relevant theoretical viewpoints. Semiotic interpretation of the cultural meanings of design requires research of the social context.

 

·     Examine the influence on one designer of another culture. How is the ‘other’ culture perceived, used and transformed?

·         Compare three examples of designs (including their advertising, if available) from different dates to demonstrate the formation and development of a particular national identity over time. Analysis of the social context and comparative design examples will be necessary.

·     Analyse the work of a designer who promotes a distinct subject position as part of their creative identity (i.e. who publicises an ethnic, national, religious, sexual, disabled, etc. identity). Do they appear to have an essentialist view of this subject position? How is their work influenced by this identity or constructed as representative of this identity?    

·     Examine the signifiers, ideology and social context defining a particular sub-culture. Which theorist do you find most relevant to understanding the sub-culture?

·         Analyse the construction of a gendered cultural identity in products by two different designers from your subject area. Examine their approach in relation to a specific issue in gender theory. An awareness of social context should be demonstrated.

·         Analyse three theoretical approaches to design for people with disabilities, using appropriate examples.

·         Examine the public image of an industrial designer or craftworker and compare to the actual conditions of production and wider industrial context. How does this image relate to any company or institutional identity and wider cultural identities in the historiography and publicity of the designer?

·     Examine the branding strategy adopted by a tourist board or regional development agency to promote a region/ town/ country, or the strategy of a company that uses a strong identity of place/ nationality to sell its products. How is the regional identity constructed in their marketing and how does it relate to other/ historic constructions of this identity?

·         Analyse the advertising of two or three companies that use youth sub-culture and style to promote their products. Is this a misrepresentation of the cultural identity, exploitative or an unethical use of corporate power in forming media stereotypes? Could it be justified in terms of the corporate identity or consumer profile?

·     Compare the brand identity strategies of two or three companies, in their marketing of products. Do they take a uniform, globalised approach or modify it for local cultural sensitivities and identities?

·         Analyse how the identity of a company or institution has changed since it was first established, using relevant criteria such as corporate aims, strategy, scale, success, staff treatment, technology, product range, quality, price level, etc. Compare two advertisements or retail interiors to demonstrate how the corporate identity has changed and is represented to the public.

·         Consider the relevance of Postmodernism to the work of one designer or company. Does the work demonstrate a Postmodern view of cultural identity?

·         Analyse two interiors, indicating how the semiotics of space, decoration and furnishings establish a cultural identity (individual, subcultural, gendered, religious, etc. as relevant). Use comparative examples to substantiate the meaning of the signs used. Material culture theory should be used.

·         Analyse a museum or art gallery exhibition, to show how the selection and display of artefacts and text creates a particular interpretation of cultural identity.

 

Note: A high quality essay should have:

·                     Clarity of structure. A focused process of analysis of the design subject using key points, structured by section titles.

·                     A high quality of critical analysis, of the subject, theories or analytical methods used and sources. This should demonstrate comprehension of the subject and theory, particularly key concepts used. The best essays have a significant degree of insight and originality (not uncritically derivative of sources used).

·                     Thorough substantiation of statements in your analysis with evidence, well referenced.

·                     Thorough research, indicated in the bibliography and apparent as the basis of the essay. Ideally, you should have a good range of sources for each theoretical approach as well as subject sources.

·                     Quality of language and writing style. Make sure that you use formal, analytical language in academic essays. You should use the third person as far as possible (it, rather than I ). Check the grammar and spelling.

·                     Presentation. Legibility and clarity of structure are most important. Word-process your essay if possible. Make sure the essay is securely fastened together or bound in a lightweight folder, but avoid putting pages in individual sleeves.

 

Referencing and Bibliographies

The following layout should be used in a bibliography:

 

Conway, H. (ed.)            Design History: A Students' Handbook, Unwin Hyman Ltd., 1987.

Articles should be listed as shown:

 

Dean, D.           ‘A Slipware Dish by Samuel Malkin: An Analysis of Vernacular Design’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1994, pp153-168.

 

Citation is the system in which you give the source for quotes or key facts. You can reference works using footnotes or endnotes: a superscript number or a number in brackets is given at the end of a quote or the end of a sentence including key facts. This is linked to numbered footnotes (at the base of the page) or endnotes (at the end of the essay or article), as follows:[1] To avoid repetition of source details in footnotes, use ibid. (to indicate the same source as the one listed in the previous reference)[2] or op. cit. (to indicate a source that has been previously referenced, with full details given, but not the one immediately before this one).[3] Make sure that your references are all consecutively numbered (rather than numbered according to source).

 

Note: Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a serious matter, as I hope these notes make clear. A simple definition of plagiarism is "direct, unattributed quotation from the work of others", or in a word, "copying" the work of others. The University takes a very severe view of plagiarism, so briefly, DON'T DO IT!!

 

Misuse of academic conventions occurs when students may not adequately reference the material that they have used through ignorance of the correct procedures.  Such misuse might involve not giving clear and accurate references to the material used in the assignment, or paraphrasing material without indicating the source, or quoting directly and failing to reference the source of the quoted passages or to place it in quotation marks. Misuse, or non-use, of academic conventions is a fault often encountered in the first year, when students are learning the ‘tools of the trade.’

 

A much more serious matter is the misuse of the work of others with intent to deceive, and to gain an advantage by unfair means. Here "direct, unattributed quotation" from the work of others, or close paraphrasing without a reference to the source of the material, or even submitting the work of another student as your own are all very serious matters and you should NOT engage in them.  You should note that where "extensive, direct, unattributed, quotation from the work of others" is found by staff in an essay this will in itself be taken as evidence of intent to deceive, and this is what is meant by "Plagiarism".

 

Always give references.

Always acknowledge quotations.

Always take references for whatever notes you take.

Always write your material in your words.

 

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Bibliography

As well as the academic sources listed below, it is expected that you will read widely in relevant design magazines, academic journals and newspapers.

 

As far as possible, the subject area bibliographies are structured into two sections, of cultural theory and relevant design analysis. Much of cultural studies writing is very dense in theory. Do not be put off! There are very useful ideas in these texts, which are relevant to design and craft practice.

 

General

*Barker, C. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications, 2000.

Billington, R. et al Culture and Society, MacMillan Press, 1991.

*Dant, T. Material Culture in the Social World, Open University Press, 1999.

During, S. (ed.)            The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, 1993.

Eagleton, T.             The Idea of Culture, Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture, Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Gergen, K. & Shotter, J.            Texts of Identity, Sage, 1989.

Hall, S. Representation, Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, Sage and Open University, 1997.

Hall, S. & du Gay, P. (eds) Questions of Cultural Identity, Sage Publications, 1996.

Goffman, E. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life, Penguin Books, 1959.

Lury, C. Consumer Culture, Polity Press, 1996.

Rutherford, J.(ed) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, Lawrence & Wishart, 1990.

*Storey, J. Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life, Arnold, 1999.

Storey, J. (ed) What is Cultural Studies? A Reader, Arnold, 1996.

The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory, Polity Press, 1994.

 

Postmodernism

Connor, S. Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary, Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Featherstone, M. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism, Sage, 1991.

Harvey, D. The Condition of Postmodernity, Blackwell, 1990.

Jameson, F. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Verso, 1991.

Jencks, C. The Post-Modern Reader, Academy Editions, 1992.

Krauss, R. The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985.

Lyotard, J. The Postmodern Condition: a Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press, 1992.

Norris, C. The Truth about Postmodernism, Blackwell, 1993.

Papadakis, A. (ed) Postmodernism on Trial, Academy Editions, 1986.

Thackera, J. (ed) Design after Modernism: Beyond the Object, Thames & Hudson, 1988.

Collins, M. Post-Modern Design, Academy Editions, 1989.

Del Vecchio, M. Postmodern Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Dormer, P. The New Jewelry: Trends and Traditions, Thames & Hudson, 1994.

Jencks, C. What is Post-Modernism?, Academy Editions, 1986 (3rd ed., 1989).

 

Semiotics

Barker, C. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications, 2000.

Barnard, M. Fashion as Communication, Routledge, 1996.

Barthes, R. Image, Music, Text, Fontana Press, 1977.

Barthes, R. ‘The Rhetoric of the Image’, in Gray, A. & McGuigan, J. (eds.) Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader, Arnold, 1993, pp15-27.

Bayley, S. Sex, Drink and Fast Cars: the Creation and Consumption of Images, Faber, 1986.

Foucault, M. The Archaeology of Knowledge, Routledge, 1972.

Guiraud, P. Semiology, Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1975.

Kuhn, A. The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality, Routledge, 1992 (first edition 1985).

O’Sullivan, T. et al Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies, Routledge, 1994.

Walker, J.A. Design History and the History of Design, Pluto Press, 1989.

Williamson, J. Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising, Marion Boyars, 1984.

 

Nationality, Culture and Race

Anderson, B. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, 1983.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., Tiffin, H. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Routledge, 1995.

Ashcroft, B. & Ahluwahlia, P.  Edward Said: the Paradox of Identity, Routledge, 1999.

Bhabha, H.K. ‘The Postcolonial and the Postmodern’, in During, S. (ed.) The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, 1993, pp189-208.

Edensor, T. National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Berg, 2002.

Greenhalgh, P. Ephemeral Vistas: Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and Worlds Fairs, 1851-1939, Manchester University Press, 1988.

Holmes, C. John Bull’s Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971, MacMillan, 1988.

Ifekwunigwe, J. Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of ‘Race’, Nation and Gender, Routledge, 1999.

King, R. Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ‘the mystic East’, Routledge, 1999.

Leersen, J. National Identity: Symbol and Representation, Rodopi, 1991.

MacDonald, S. Inside European Identities, Berg, 1993.

McClintock, A. ‘The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Postcolonialism’ ‘ in Barker, F., Hulme, P. & Iversen, M. (eds.) Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory, Manchester University Press, 1994.

McClintock, A. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context, Routledge, 1995.

MacKenzie, J. Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts, Manchester University Press, 1995.

Nochlin, L. ‘The Imaginary Orient’, Art in America, May 1983, pp118-31, 187-91.

Panayi, P. The Impact of Immigration, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, Penguin, 1995 (first pub. 1978).

Smith, A.D. National Identity, Penguin Books, 1991.

Doy, G. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity, I.B. Tauris, 2000.

Frith, W. ‘Sex, Smallpox and Seraglios: a Monument to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’, in Perry, G. & Rossington, M. (eds.) Femininity and Masculinity in 18th C. Art and Culture, Manchester University Press, 1994.

Lynch, A. Dress, Gender and Cultural Change: Asian American and African American Rites of Passage, Berg, 1999.

Munby, Z. ‘Representations of Women and Race in the Lancashire Cotton Trade’, in Attfield, J. & Kirkham, P. A View from the Interior, The Woman’s Press Ltd, 1989.

Picton, J. The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Lund Humphries, 1995.

Powell, R. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Thames & Hudson, 1997.

Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: the Legacy of African American Craft Art, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Ohio, 1993.

Sweetman, J. The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Troy, N. ‘The Logic of Fashion’, Journal of the Decorative Arts Society, No. 19, 1995, pp1-7. (on Poiret’s Oriental designs)

Tulloch, C. ‘That Little Magic Touch: the Headtie’, in , pp63-78.

 

Cormack, P. ‘Recreating a Tradition: Christopher Whall (1849-1924) and the Arts and Crafts Renascence of English Stained Glass’ in Bowe, N. (ed.) Art and the National Dream, Irish Academic Press, 1993.

Greenhalgh, P. ‘The English Compromise: Modern Design and National Consciousness, 1870-1940’, in Kaplan, W. (ed.) Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Merrett, D. & Whitwell, G. ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Marketing Australian Beer and Wine in the United Kingdom’, in Jones, G. & Morgan, N. (eds.) Adding Value: Brands and Value in Food and Drink, Routledge, 1994, pp162-188.

McDermott, C. Street Style: British Design in the 80s, The Design Council, 1987.

Sparke, P. (ed.) Did Britain Make It? British Design in Context 1946-86, The Design Council, 1986.

The British Council Lost and Found: Critical Voices in New British Design, The British Council, 1999.

Thackera, J. & Jane, S.            New British Design, Thames & Hudson, 1986.

Brunhammer, Y. French Decorative Art: The Société des Artistes Décorateurs, 1900-1942, Flammarion, 1990.

MacDonald, J. ‘Let us now praise the name of famous men’: Myth and Meaning in the Stained Glass of the Scottish National War Memorial’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001, pp117-128.

Jarman, N. ‘Material of culture, fabric of identity’, in Miller, D. (ed.) Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter, UCL Press, 1998, pp121-145.

Kinmouth, C. ‘Rags and Rushes: Art and the Irish Artefact, c1900’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2001, pp167-185.

Greenhalgh, P. ‘The Struggles within French Furniture’, in Greenhalgh, P. (ed.) Modernism in Design, Reaktion Books, 1990.

Troy, N. Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France, Yale University Press, 1991.

Gaughan, M. ‘The Cultural Politics of the German Modernist Interior’, in Greenhalgh, P. (ed.) Modernism in Design, Reaktion Books, 1990.

Reisenfeld, R. ‘Cultural Nationalism, Brucke and the German Woodcut: the Formation of a Collective Identity’, Art History, June 1997.

Stein, L. ‘German Design and National Identity, 1890-1918’, in Kaplan, W. (ed.) Designing Modernity: the Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Jan-Neubauer, J. Feet and Footwear in Indian Culture, Mapin, 2000.

Guttry, I. De ‘Forging Modern Italy: from Wrought Iron to Aluminium’, in

& Maino, M. Kaplan, W. (ed.) Designing Modernity: the Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Sparke, P. Italian Design: 1870 to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 1988.

Heisinger, K. & Fischer, F. Japanese Design: a Survey Since 1950, Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

Bergvelt, E. ‘The Decorative Arts in Amsterdam, 1890-1930’, in Kaplan, W. (ed.) Designing Modernity: the Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Crowley, D. ‘Finding Poland in the Margins: the Case of the Zakopane Style’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001, pp105-116.

Naylor, G. ‘Swedish Grace . . . or the Acceptable Side of Modernism?’ in Greenhalgh, P. (ed.) Modernism in Design, Reaktion Books, 1990.

 

Class and Cultural Group

Atkinson, D. ‘Vile Creatures’: Homeworking in Spitalfields, London, 1880-1909, in Devonshire, A. & Wood, B. (eds.) Women in Industry and Technology from Prehistory to the Present Day, Museum of London, 1996.

*Bourdieu, P. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Bourke, J. Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity, Routledge, 1994.

Chaney, D. Lifestyles, Routledge, 1996.

Cohen, P. ‘Subcultural Conflict and Working-Class Community’ in Hall, S. et al (eds) Culture, Media, Language, Hutchinson, 1980.

Corrigan, P. The Sociology of Consumption, Sage Publications, 1997.

Davidoff, L & Hall, C. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850, Routledge, 1992.

Doy, Gen Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representation, Berg Publishers Ltd, 1995.

Fiske, J. Understanding Popular Culture, Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Forty, A. Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Gloversmith, F. (ed.) Class, Culture and Social Change: A New View of the 1930s, Harvester Press, 1980

Hall, S. & Jefferson, T. (eds.) Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain, Routledge, 1996.

Harrington, C. Popular Culture: Production and Consumption, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

*Hebdige, D. Subculture & the Meaning of Style, Routledge, 1988.

Hopkins, E. A Social History of the English Working Classes, 1815-1945, Edward Arnold, 1979.

Lewis, L. (ed) The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, Routledge, 1992.

Lunt, P. & Livingstone, S.M. Mass Consumption and Personal Identity, Open University Press, 1990.

Massefoli, M. The Time of the Tribes: the Decline of Individualism in Mass Society, Sage Publications, 1996.

McRobbie, A. Zoot Suits and Second Hand Dresses, MacMillan, 1989.

McRobbie, A. Feminism and Youth Culture, MacMillan, 1991.

Muggleton, D. Inside Subculture: the Postmodern Meaning of Style, Berg, 2000.

Savage, M. & Miles, A.  The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940, Routledge, 1994.

Shields, R. (ed)            Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption, Routledge, 1992.

Stone, L. & J.C.F. An Open Elite? England 1540-1880, Oxford, 1984.

Storey, J. (ed) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1998.

Tagg, J. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories, MacMillan Press, 1988.

Thornton, S. Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital, Polity Press, 1995.

Veblen, T. The Theory of the Leisure Class, Penguin Books, 1994 (first ed. 1899).

Social History and Journal of Social History

 

Clarke, A. ‘Tupperware: Suburbia, Sociability and Mass Consumption’, in Silverstone, R. (ed.) Visions of Suburbia, Routledge, 1997.

Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House, Yale University Press, 1978.

Miller, M.B. The Bon Marche: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920, Princeton University Press, 1981.

Redmile, B. A Brief History of Co-operative Fashion, Brenda Redmile, 1998.

Service, A. Edwardian Interiors: Inside the Homes of the Poor, the Average and the Wealthy, Barry & Jenkins, 1982.

Turner, M. & Hoskins, L. Silver Studio of Design: a Design and Source Book for Home Decoration, Magma Books, 1995 (1st ed. 1988).

Winship, J. ‘New disciplines for women and the rise of the chain store in the 1930s’, in Andrews, M. and Talbot, M., All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth Century Consumer Culture, Cassell, 2000.

 

Interiors/ Architecture/ Place

Carter, E. et al            Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location, Lawrence & Wishart, 1993.

Cunningham, C. ‘‘An Italian House is My Lady’: Some Aspects of the Definition of Women’s Role in the Architecture of Robert Adam’, in Perry, G. & Rossington, M. (eds.) Femininity and Masculinity in 18th C. Art and Culture, Manchester University Press, 1994.

Forty, A. Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, Yale University Press, 1978.

Keith, M. & Pile, S. (eds) Place and the Politics of Identity, Routledge, 1993.

King, A. D. ‘Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: the Hidden History of the Bungalow’, in Silverstone, R. (ed.) Visions of Suburbia, Routledge, 1997.

Matrix   Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment, Pluto Press, 1984.

Scott, K. The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth Century Paris, Yale University Press, 1995.

Sparke, P. ‘‘The Things which Surround One’: the Domestic Aesthetic’ in Sparke, P. As Long As It’s Pink, Harper Collins Publishers, 1995, pp31-49.

Turner, M. and Hoskins, L. Silver Studio of Design: a Design and Source Book for Home Decoration, Magma Books, 1995 (1st ed. 1988)

 

Gender

Andrews, M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century

 & Talbot, M. Consumer Culture, Cassell, 2000.

*Attfield, Judy ‘FORM/ female FOLLOWS FUNCTION/ male: Feminist Critiques of Design’, in Walker, John A, Design History and the History of Design, Pluto Press, 1989.

Bo, F. Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender, Polity Press, 1992.

*Buckley, C. ‘Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design’ in Margolin, V. (ed.) Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Dotterer, R. & Bowers, S. Politics, Gender and the Arts: Women, the Arts and Society, 1992.

Doy, Gen Seeing and Consciousness: Women, Class and Representation, Berg Publishers Ltd, 1995.

Glover, D. & Kaplan, C.            Genders: New Critical Idiom, Routledge, 2000.

Mort, F. Cultures of Consumption: Commerce, Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentieth Century Britain, Routledge, 1996.

Mulvey, Linda Visual and Other Pleasures, Macmillan, 1989.

Nicholson, Linda J. (ed.)            Feminism/ Postmodernism, Routledge, 1990.

Parker, Rozsika & Pollock, Griselda Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Routledge & Kegan

Paul, 1981.

Polity Press (ed.) The Polity Reader in Gender Studies, Polity Press, 1994.   

Robinson, H. (ed.) Visibly Female: Feminism and Art Today, Camden Press, 1987.

Rutherford, J. Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity, Lawrence & Wishart, 1988.

Swann, J. Girls, Boys and Language, 1992.

Sparke, P. As Long As It’s Pink, Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

Whelehan, Imelda Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to ‘Post-Feminism’, Edinburgh University Press, 1995.

Wallis, B. & Watson, S. (eds.)  Constructing Masculinity, Routledge, 1995.

Wolff, Janet ‘The Invisible Flaneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity’ in The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory, Polity Press, 1994.

Wolff, Janet Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, Polity Press, 1995.

 

Anscombe, I. A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design From 1680 to the Present Day, Virago, 1984.

Attfield, J. & A View from the Interior: Feminism, Women and Design, The           Kirkham, P. (eds.) Women's Press Ltd, 1989.

Breward, C. The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Callen, A. Angel in the Studio: Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914, Astragel Books, 1979.

Edwards, T. Men in the Mirror: Men’s Fashion, Masculinity and Consumer Society, Cassell, 1997.

Jefferies, J. Reinventing Textiles: Gender and Identity, Vol. 2, Telos, 2001.

Kirkham, P. The Gendered Object, Manchester University Press, 1994.

McNeil, P. ‘Designing Women: Gender, Sexuality and the Interior Designer, c.1890-1940’, Art History, Vol. 17, No. 4, Dec. 1994, pp631-657.

Parker, R. The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, The Women's Press, 1984, especially Chapter 1: 'The Creation of Femininity'.

Sparke, P. As Long As It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, Pandora (Harper Collins), 1995.

 

Sexual Orientation

Abelove, H. et al The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Routledge, 1993.

Berlant, L. & Warner, M.            ‘Sex in Public’, in During, S. (ed.) The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, 1993, pp354-367.

Clark, D. & Bielby, D. (eds.) ‘Commodity Lesbianism’, in Harrington, C. Popular Culture: Production and Consumption, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Dorenkamp, M. & Henke, R. Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects, Routledge, 1995.

Foucault, M. ‘A Preface to Transgression’, in Bouchard, D. (ed.) Michel Foucault: Language, Counter Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, Cornell University Press, 1977.

Grosz, E. ‘Lesbian Fetishism?’ in Apter, E. & Pietz, W. (eds) Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, Cornell University Press, 1993.

Jeffery-Poulter, S. Peers, Queers and Commons: the Struggle for Gay Law Reform from 1950 to the Present, Routledge, 1991.

Malossi,  G. (ed.) Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style, Abrams, 2000.

Meyer, M. (ed.)            The Politics and Poetics of Camp, Routledge, 1994.

Nardi, P. & Schneider, B. (eds.)    Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: a Reader, Routledge, 1998.   

Schor, N. & Bloomington, E. More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory, Indians University Press, 1994.

Warner, M. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory, University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Weeks, J. Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Quartet Books, 1990.

Wilton, T. Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda, Routledge, 1995.

 

Boffin, T. & Frazer, J. (eds.)   Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, Pandora, 1991.

Cole, S.            ‘Invisible Men: Gay Men’s Dress in Britain, 1950-70’ in de la Haye, A. & Wilson, E. Defining Dress, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Kennedy, E.L. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: the History of a Lesbian

& Davis, M.D. Community, Routledge, 1993.

Lewis, R. & Rolley, K. ‘(Ad)dressing the Dyke: Lesbian Looks and Lesbians Looking’ in Nava, M. et al, Buy this Book: Studies in Advertising and

Consumption, Routledge, 1997.

 

Special Needs/ Disability

Barnes, C. Disabled People in Britain and Discrimination, C. Hurst & Co., 1991.

Barton, L. (ed.)            Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights, Longman, 1996.

Burgess, A. Here to Help: a Directory of Help Available in Leicestershire for Children, Leicester County Council, 1987 (reference).

Dant, T. Material Culture in the Social World, Open University Press, 1999. (Chapter 9)

Fleischer, D.Z. & Zames, F. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, Temple University Press, 2001.

Goffman, E. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Penguin Books, 1990.

Kurzman, S. ‘Cultural Attitudes towards prostheses: an anthropological approach’ in www2.ucsc/edu/people/kurzman/capabilitiesarticle.htm

Swain, J. et al (eds.) Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments, Sage Publications, 1993.

Stopford, V. Understanding Disability: Causes, Characteristics and Coping, Edward Arnold, 1987.

Innovate Journal

 

Guyatt, M. ‘Better Legs: Artificial Limbs for British Veterans of the First World War’, Journal of Design History, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2001, pp307-325.

Leicester City Gallery adorn, equip, Leicester City Gallery 2001.

Lockhart, T. Housing Adaptations for Disabled People, The Architectural Press, 1981.

London Guildhall University Design for Disability: a Handbook for Students and Teachers, London Guildhall University, 1993.

Papanek, V. Design for the Real World, Thames & Hudson, 1984.

Statham, R. House Adaptations for People with Physical Disabilities: a Guidance Manual for Practitioners, HMSO, 1988.

Whiteley, N. Design for Society, Reaktion Books, 1993.

www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk (Helen Hamlyn Research Centre)

http://rnib.org.uk/

 

Adornment and the Body

Adler, K. & Pointon, M. (eds.) The Body Imaged, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Ahmed, S. & Stacey, J. (eds.) Thinking through the Skin, Routledge, 2001.

Ash, J. Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, Pandora Press, 1992.

& Wilson, E. (eds.)

Barnard, M. Fashion as Communication, Routledge, 1996.

Chavel, C. ‘Effeminacy, Pleasure and the Classical Body’, in Perry, G. & Rossington, M. (eds.) Femininity and Masculinity in 18th C. Art and Culture, Manchester University Press, 1994, pp142-161.

Craik, J. The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion, Routledge, 1994.

Davis, F. Fashion, Culture and Identity, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Falk, P. The Consuming Body, Sage, 1994.

Featherstone, M. & Burrows, R. (eds)  Cyberspace/ Cyberbodies/ Cyberpunk: Cultures of

Technological Embodiment, Sage Publications, 1995.

Haye, A. de la & Wilson, E. Defining Dress, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Hebdige, D. Subculture & the Meaning of Style, Routledge, 1988.

Hall, S.            Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war

& Jefferson, T. (eds.) Britain, Routledge, 1996.

Hollander, A. Seeing Through Clothes, University of California Press, 1993.

Kirkham, P. The Gendered Object, Manchester University Press, 1994.

McRobbie, A. (ed) Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses: An Anthology of Fashion and Music, MacMillan, 1989.   

Shilling, C. The Body and Social Theory, Sage, 1993.

Silverman, K. ‘Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse’, in Modleski, T. (ed.), Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to a Mass Culture, Indiana University Press, 1986.

Sweetman, P. ‘Marked bodies, oppositional identities? Tattooing, piercing and the ambiguity of resistance’, in Roseneil, S. & Seymour, J. (eds) Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, MacMillan, 1999.

Willis, P.E. ‘The Expressive Style of a Motor-bike Culture’, in Benthall, J. & Polhemus, T. (eds) The Body as a Means of Expression, Allen Lane, 1975.

Wilson, E. ‘These New Components of the Spectacle: Fashion and Postmodernism’, in Boyne, Roy and Rattansi, Postmodernism and Society, MacMillan Education Ltd., 1991.

 

Globalism, Technology, Virtuality

Baudrillard, J. Simulacra and Simulation, University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Darley, A. Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres, Routledge, 2000.

Friedman, J. Cultural Identity and the Global Process, Sage, 1994.

Haraway, D. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, in During, S. (ed.) The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, 1993, pp271-291.

Kellner, D. Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and

& Cvetkovich, A. Cultural Studies, Westview Press, 1997.

Kreitzman, L. The 24hr Society, Profile, 1999.

Morley, D. & Robins, K. Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes

and Cultural Boundaries, Routledge, 1995.

Miller, D.‘Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad’, in Miller, D. (ed.) Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter, UCL Press, 1998, pp169-187.

Nielsen, J. Multimedia and Hypertext: the Internet and Beyond, AP Professional, 1995.

Ritzer, G. The McDonaldisation of Society, Pine Forge Press, 1996.

Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful, Blond & Briggs, 1973.

Silverstone, R. & Hirsch, E. (eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, Routledge, 1992.

Strange, S. States and Markets, Pinter Publishers, 1988.

Waters, M. Globalization, Routledge, 1995.

 

Company/ Organisation/ Product Brand

Aaker, D.A. & Joachimsthaler, E. Brand Leadership, The Free Press, 2000.

Aldersey-Williams, H. Corporate Identity, Lund Hunphries, 1994.

Bourdieu, P. The Field of Cultural Production, Polity Press, 1993.

Davidson, M. The Consumerist Manifesto: Advertising in Postmodern Times, Routledge, 1992.

Elbaum, B. & Lazonick, W. (eds.) The Decline of the British Economy, Clarendon Press, 1986.

Falk, P. & Campbell, C. (eds.)   The Shopping Experience, Sage Publications Ltd., 1997.

Forty, A. Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750, Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Jones, G. & Morgan, N. (eds.) Adding Value: Brands and Value in Food and Drink, Routledge, 1994.

Jones, J.P. (ed.) International Advertising: Realities and Myths, Sage Publications, 2000.

Lancaster, B. The Department Store: A Social History, Leicester University Press, 1995.

Lury, G. Brandwatching: Lifting the Lid on the Phenomena of Branding, Blackhall Publishing Ltd., 1998.

Meikle, J. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-39, Temple University Press, 1979.

Myers, G. Ad Worlds: Brands, Media, Audience, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Nava, M. et al            Buy this Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption, Routledge, 1997.

Notolato, G. American Design in the Twentieth Century, Manchester University Press, 1998.

Packard, V. The Hidden Persuaders, Penguin, 1981 (first edition 1962).

Vardar, N. Global Advertising: Rhyme or Reason?, Paul Chapman Ltd., 1992.

Wills, G., Hayhurst, R. and Midgeley, D. (eds.) Creating and Marketing New Products, Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1973

Winship, J. ‘New disciplines for women and the rise of the chain store in the 1930s’, in Andrews, M. and Talbot, M., All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth Century Consumer Culture, Cassell, 2000.

 

Brandon, R. Singer and the Sewing Machine: a Capitalist Romance, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977.

Bury, H. A Choice of Design, 1850-1980: Fabrics by Warner & Sons Ltd, Warner & Sons Ltd, 1981.

Coleman, D.C.            Courtaulds: an Economic and Social History, Clarendon Press, 1980.

Corina, M. Fine Silks and Oak Counters: Debenhams 1778-1978, Hutchinson Benham, 1978.

Du Gay, P. et al (eds) Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, Sage, 1996.

Goodden , S. At the Sign of the Fourposter: A History of Heal’s, Heal & Son Ltd, 1984.

Harvey, C. & Press, J. William Morris: Design and Enterprise in Victorian Britain,

Manchester University Press, 1991.

Heskett, J. Philips: a Study of the Corporate Management of Design, Trefoil, 1989.

Morton, J. Three Generations of a Family Textile Firm, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.

Pasold, E.W. Ladybird, Ladybird: a Story of Private Enterprise, Manchester University Press, 1977.

Rees, G. St Michael: a History of Marks & Spencer, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1973.

 

Craft

Carruthers, A. & Greensted, M. (eds.) Simplicity or Splendour Arts and Crafts Living: Objects from the Cheltenham Collections, Cheltenham Borough Council, 1999.

Crawford, A. (ed.) By Hammer and Hand: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1984.

Dormer, P. ‘The ideal world of Vermeer’s little lacemaker’, in Thackera, J. (ed.) Design after Modernism, Thames and Hudson, 1988.

Dormer, P. (ed.)            The Culture of Craft, Manchester University Press, 1997.

Greensted, M. The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds, Sutton Publishing, 1993.

Harrod, T. The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century, Yale University Press, 1999.

Kaplan, W. The Art that is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Bullfinch Press, 1998.

Kardon, J. (ed.)            Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of 20th Century Craft, Harry N. Abrams and the American Craft Museum, 1995.

Leach, P. A Potter's Book, Faber & Faber, 1940.

Faulkner, R. Japanese Studio Crafts, Laurence King, 1995.

Rago, D. American Art Pottery, Knickerbocker, 1997.

 

Museum/ Gallery Exhibition

Coombes, A. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination, Yale University Press, 1994.

Hewison, R. The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline, Methuen, 1987.

Karp, I. & Lavine, S. (eds) Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institution, 1991.

Lumley, R. The Museum Time-Machine, Routledge, 1988.   

MacDonald, S. (ed) The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture, Routledge, 1999.

Pye, D.             The Nature and Art of Workmanship, Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Ross, C. ‘It’s a Man’s World? A New Tyneside Gallery’, in Devonshire, A. & Wood, B. (eds) Women in Industry and Technology from Prehistory to the Present Day: Current Research and the Museum Experience, Museum of London, 1996.

Vergo, P. (ed) The New Museology, Reaktion Books, 1989.

 

Additional

Robert Colls and Philip Dodd (eds.), Englishness: Politics and Culture (1880-1920), London, Croom Helm, 1986.

Vaughan, William. 'The Englishness of British Art', The Oxford Art Journal, 13:2, 1990, pp.11-23.

Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Englishness of English Art: An Expanded and Annotated Version of the Reith Lectures Broadcast in October and November 1955, London, Architectural Press, 1956.

Dodd, Philip. 'Art, History and Englishness: An Open Letter from Philip Dodd', Modern Painters, vol.1, no.4, Winter 1988/9, pp.40-41.

Maltby, John. 'The Englishness of English Pots', Ceramic Review, 122, March/April 1990, pp.8-11.

Partington, M. ‘Ray Finch and Functional’, Interpreting Ceramics, Issue 1, 2000 (www.uwic.ac.uk/ICRC).

 

 

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[1] Bourdieu, P. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, p92.

[2] Ibid., p70.

[3] Conway, H., op. cit., p43.