Sensing Design and Workmanship: (Record no. 15364)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | Library, SPAB |
| 041 ## - Language | |
| Language | Eng |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith,Kate |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sensing Design and Workmanship: |
| Sub Title | The Haptic Skills of Shoppers in Eighteenth-Century London/ |
| Statement of responsibility | Kate Smith |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Oxford: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2012( 1–10 p.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This article explores how eighteenth-century shoppers understood the material world around them. It argues that retail experiences exposed shoppers to different objects, which subsequently shaped their understanding of this world. This article builds on recent research that highlights the importance of shop environments and browsing in consumer choice. More particularly, it differentiates itself by examining the practice of handling goods in shops and arguing that sensory interaction with multiple goods was one of the key means by which shoppers comprehended concepts of design and workmanship. In doing so, it affirms the importance of sensory research to design history.<br/><br/>The article focuses on consumer purchases of ceramic objects and examines a variety of sources to demonstrate the role of haptic skills in this act. It shows how different literary sources described browsing for goods in gendered and satirical terms and then contrasts these readings against visual evidence to illustrate how handling goods was also represented as a positive act. It reads browsing as a valued practice requiring competence, patience and haptic skills. Through an examination of diary sources, letters and objects this article asks what information shoppers gained from touching various objects. It concludes by demonstrating how repetitive handling in search of quality meant that shoppers acquired their own conception of what constituted workmanship and design. |
| 650 ## - Subject | |
| Subject | Ceramics Industry |
| Chronological subdivision | 18th Century |
| Geographic subdivision | Europe |
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| Subject | Consumption |
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| Subject | Manufactur Material |
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| Host Biblionumber | 9229 |
| Host Itemnumber | 13521 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Oxford Oxford University Press |
| Other item identifier | J000524 |
| Title | Journal of design history |
| International Standard Serial Number | 0952-4649 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epr006 |
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| Koha item type | Articles |
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