Artisan Edinburgh is the culmination of interviews and studio visits with some of the city's finest makers, giving a unique insight into their individual workspaces and the inspirations behind their craft.
Author: Catherine Aitken
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 0750989351
Category: Artisans
Page: 192
View: 140
Artisan Edinburgh is the culmination of interviews and studio visits with some of the city's finest makers, giving a unique insight into their individual workspaces and the inspirations behind their craft. From ceramicists to weavers, silversmiths to kiltmakers, here traditional methods blend with modern, cutting-edge techniques to create wonderful and unique objets d'art.
Author: Donald Stephen Lowell CardwellPublish On: 1974
As well as attending the Edinburgh School of Arts from 1821 to 1826 , he also attended the classes of chemistry , mathematics and natural philosophy in the ...
Edinburgh', in InternationalReview of SocialHistory, 18, 1973, pp. ... The cultural activities of Edinburgh artisan organisations displayed precisely the ...
Author: Geoffrey Crossick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317237419
Category: History
Page: 302
View: 402
First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies, co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology, challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their values and activities. This title makes a major contribution towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class.
Fig.2 . The " Excelsior " Elastic Car - wheel . Electric Time - guns . taken from the
passing of the current to the igni . To combine elasticity with a sufficient degree of
The city of Edinburgh affords the first example tion of the powder , and discharge
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... later , we find the following notice of a in use for many years into the last
century . They traveled particularly slowly , by reason new coach : “ The Edinburgh stage - coach , for the better accommodation of passengers , that they
seldom , if ...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1997. Rosner, Lisa. Medical Education in the Age of Improvement. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Rossi, Paolo.
Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226764269
Category: Science
Page: 408
View: 646
Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.
Brown was born in Alloa , Scotland , on 29 November 1818 , the son of a
prosperous Edinburgh merchant . The book in his library with the earliest
association is a copy of Samuel Johnson ' s Rasselas ( London , 1825 ) , in which
young ...
capital and labour: the petite bourgeoisie in Victorian Edinburgh«, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986, ch. 5; R.A. Aminzade, Class, Politics, ...
Author: Geoffrey Crossick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351894463
Category: History
Page: 280
View: 917
Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive activity, their guilds were often central to the political and legal order of towns, and their culture helped shape civic ritual and the urban order. These essays, which have all been specially written for this collection, explore the relationships between artisans and their towns across Europe between the beginning of the early-modern period and the end of the 19th century. They pay special attention to the processes of economic, juridicial and political change that have made the 18th and early 19th centuries a period of such significance. Written by leading historians of European artisans, the essays question the myths about artisans that have long pervaded research in the field. The leading myth was that shared by the artisans themselves - the myth of decline and the belief in each generation that artisans in the past had inhabited a better age. These essays open up for debate the nature of artisanship, the way economic change affected craft production, the political role of artisans, the cultural identification of the artisans with work and masculinity, and the way changing urban society and changing urban structure posed threats to which the artisans had to respond.
... What to “ The best answer we have seen to the Read , and How to Read , ' is
an erudite common and most puzzling question , Scotchman who has taught with
much • What shall I read ? ' Scliolarly and success in Edinburgh . His hints on the
...
... What to " The best answer we have seen to the Read , and How to Read , ' is
an erudite common and most puzzling question , Scotchman who has taught with
much • What shall I read ? ' Sciolarly and success in Edinburgh . His hints on the
...
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publish On: 1879
There is just about the same difference between the mean temperatures of
London and Paris as there is between Edinburgh and London , and horticulturists
who know anything of gardening in the last places are aware that the climate of ...
Were this quality and quantity of iron de- not the case , a non - protecting duty
livered in Great Britain to her " would be a means which it could artisans , while
the tax on tin- seldom be advisable to adopt , being plates has been $
60,000,000.1 ...
Author: Dundee Courier (Dundee, Scotland)Publish On: 1883
Speaking of his own experience , he process in mechanics . said that he was It
Saves Labour , As Comfortable in Edinburgh material , and time , and so reduces
the cost of produc- as ever he had been in America . He also told me tion that it ...
But is it certain that the artisan class will necessarily be inclined to support the
more extreme views of the existing Liberal party ? We doubt that very much . On
the contrary , we have the strongest impression that , in a party sense , the ...
He had been closely associated with the Scottish Board of Trustees in Edinburgh and had written a pamphlet on design for manufacturers and the associated ...
Author: Gordon Sutton
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9781483194080
Category: Art
Page: 340
View: 748
Artisan or Artist?: A History of the Teaching of Art and Crafts in English Schools provides information pertinent to the origin of the teaching of art and crafts in English schools. This book discusses the fundamental aspects of art education in the schools. Organized into 16 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the close link between drawing and writing. This text then discusses the character of English education in the 19th century. Other chapters consider the definite views of art and craft education and discuss the regulations for training of teachers for elementary schools. This book discusses as well the progress of art as a subject for the school certificate. The final chapter deals with the methods and findings of psychology that have benefited art education. This book is a valuable resource for art historians, artists, art teachers, art students, and research workers.
In 1754 , in Edinburgh , one Nichol Brown went to the gallows after killing , cooking and consuming his wife . Evidence at his trial indicated that he had ...
Author: David Brian Plummer
Publisher: COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
ISBN: 0953364860
Category: Hunting
Page: 126
View: 984
Account of Plummer's development as a hunter, from boyhood exploits with lurcher and terrier to adulthood, with many interesting digressions. Includes chapters on cock-fighting and bird-catching, cooking and eating badgers, foxes and rats, hawks and hawking. Although Plummer often comes across as bonkers, many of his apparently eccentric actions, such as badger eating or covering himself with a concoction of badger grease and herbs, were experiments to establish the plausibility of claims made by other writers. Being perpetually surrounded by people incapable of sharing this pioneering spirit of enquiry seems the source of his restlessness and the driving force behind the hundreds of books he wrote in his lifetime. This is not to say that Plummer did not have deep problems, as he himself describes in Hancock's My Life with Lurchers.
He had done superb work for the paper , ' A panorama of Edinburgh ' , for example , finally issued as a special plate in 1848 , and he had , as chief ...
... Edition of the Edinburgh Dispensarory , " all the Mimosas with which we are sufficio , ' ently acquainted furnish a pure gum , not a gum resin . " ( 3. ) ...
... was clearly proved by Doctor White of Cannanore , wbose account of the Koorka ponllis tree was published in the Edinburgh Medical and Physical Journal .
Were there at present in existence such a general regard for science as would
flow from the course indicated , the establishment of special technical schools for
the great mass of our artisans would not be the work of doubt and deliberation ...
