Browsing by Author "Lees-Maffei, Grace"

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    • Small Change? : Emily Post’s Etiquette (1922-2011) 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Continuum, 2012-10-04)
      In the contemporary book market, non-fiction genres such as biography and self-help command considerable sales, yet ‘bestseller’ is still a term primarily associated with fiction (the nature of that fiction is explored in ...

    • A Special Relationship: The Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Berghahn Books, 2016-07-01)
      Proceeding from the position that national identity cannot be understood solely from within a given focal nation, this chapter argues that transnational or comparative design histories are better fitted to understanding ...

    • Studying advice: historiography, methodology, commentary, bibliography 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2003)

    • Text-led and Object-led Research Paradigms: doing without words 

      Biggs, Michael; Buchler, Daniela (Berg Publishers, 2011-12)

    • Victor Margolin 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016-01-01)

    • Why design history? : A multi-national perspective on the state and purpose of the field 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Huppatz, Daniel J. (2013-04)
      This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in terms of its role in the education of historically aware and critically engaged ...

    • "Why then the world's mine oyster": Consumption and Globalization 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Routledge, 2016-06-01)
      Design has been seen in education and public contexts as principally concerned with ideation and production, yet consumption is an important part of the design lifecycle. This chapter considers the history of consumer ...

    • Writing Design : Words and Objects 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Creative Arts; Theorising Visual Art and Design; Art and Design (Berg Publishers, 2012)
      This text encourages readers to consider how we learn about the objects that surround us. Besides seeing and making use of objects through the senses, we also learn via language, in the written and spoken word. This includes ...

    • Writing Design: Words, Myths, Practices 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Creative Arts; Theorising Visual Art and Design (2010-12-21)
      I edited a volume of the TVAD Research Group's double-blind peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal developed from the major international Design History Society annual conference I convened at UH in 2009.