Clive Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the ho…
Turning Houses into Homes
Contents: Preface Introduction Early developments in furniture retailing and consumption The rise of the retail tastemaker: 18th century furniture retailing and distribution From being to well-being: the growing demand for comfort and convenience in the 18th century home The retail revolution: the response to the demands from the 19th century consumer Aestheticisation of everyday life: 19th century homes and their importance in society 20th centu…
Novel Craft
Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction Talia Schaffer Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 228 pages, 27 illustrations, bibliography, index, US$65/GBP£40, (clot
Talking Shop
Reviewed by: Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption Clive Edwards (bio) Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption. By Peter Betjemann. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. ix+267. $35. This examination of craft in literature will be of genuine interest to readers of Technology and Culture. It examines the language of craft, labor, work, and making in the period 1840–1920. The author arg…
From Homes to Houses
"Improving" the Decoration of Furniture
In the 1980s, the application of the laser to cut veneers for marquetry was arguably the first major successful development for improving the process since the nineteenth century. Despite attempts to advance what had been an essentially hand-crafted technique, successful economic applications remained elusive. This article analyzes attempts made since the mid nineteenth-century to apply technologies to "improve" the marquetry process in Britain a…
From genius to genres
Books reviewed in this article: Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design and the Decorative Arts Britain 1500–1900
From Being to Wellbeing
Book reviewed in this article: John E. Crowley, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
Carl Zeiss Jena Gmbh
From Agb to BVG
Doing Business in Japan; Longer Term Outcomes of Postwar Intervention
(1992). Doing Business in Japan; Longer Term Outcomes of Postwar Intervention. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 4, Special Japan Issue, pp. 45-60
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the ho…
Doing Business in Japan; Longer Term Outcomes of Postwar Intervention
(1992). Doing Business in Japan; Longer Term Outcomes of Postwar Intervention. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 4, Special Japan Issue, pp. 45-60
From Agb to BVG
Carl Zeiss Jena Gmbh
From Being to Wellbeing
Book reviewed in this article: John E. Crowley, The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
From genius to genres
Books reviewed in this article: Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design and the Decorative Arts Britain 1500–1900
Talking Shop
Reviewed by: Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption Clive Edwards (bio) Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption. By Peter Betjemann. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. ix+267. $35. This examination of craft in literature will be of genuine interest to readers of Technology and Culture. It examines the language of craft, labor, work, and making in the period 1840–1920. The author arg…
From Homes to Houses
"Improving" the Decoration of Furniture
In the 1980s, the application of the laser to cut veneers for marquetry was arguably the first major successful development for improving the process since the nineteenth century. Despite attempts to advance what had been an essentially hand-crafted technique, successful economic applications remained elusive. This article analyzes attempts made since the mid nineteenth-century to apply technologies to "improve" the marquetry process in Britain a…
Novel Craft
Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction Talia Schaffer Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 228 pages, 27 illustrations, bibliography, index, US$65/GBP£40, (clot
Turning Houses into Homes
Contents: Preface Introduction Early developments in furniture retailing and consumption The rise of the retail tastemaker: 18th century furniture retailing and distribution From being to well-being: the growing demand for comfort and convenience in the 18th century home The retail revolution: the response to the demands from the 19th century consumer Aestheticisation of everyday life: 19th century homes and their importance in society 20th centu…
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the ho…
Art (8 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Consumption (sociology) (3 works) · Craft (3 works)