Childhood by design : toys and the material culture of childhood, 1700-present / edited by Megan Brandow-Faller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511786203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; New York, NY, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
• ISBN: 1-5013-3296-1; 1-5013-3203-1; 1-5013-3204-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages) : colour illustrations
• Collana: Material culture of art and design
• Disciplina: 649/.55
• Soggetti: Toys - History; Children's paraphernalia - History; Material culture - History; Play - History; Children - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children -- Megan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough, USA -- Part I: Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption and Commodity Culture -- 1. Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys and Learning to Shop in 18th-Century Britain -- Serena Dyer, Middlesex University, UK -- 2. Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long 18th-Century -- Ariane Fennetaux, University of Paris, Diderot, France -- 3. The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France -- Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University, USA -- 4. Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity -- Colin Fanning, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA -- Part II: Child's Play? Avant-Garde and Reform Toy Design -- 5. Cultivating Aesthetic Ways ; of Looking: Walter Crane, Flora's Feast, and the Possibilities of Children's Literature -- Andrea Korda, University of Alberta, Augustana, Canada -- 6. The Unexpected Victory of Charakter-Puppen: Dolls, Artists, Aesthetics and Identity in Early 20th-Century Germany -- Bryan Ganaway, The College of Charleston, USA -- 7. Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy -- Michelle Millar Fisher, City University of New York, USA -- 8. Simply Child's Play? Toys, Idealogy,and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968 -- Cathleen Giustino, Auburn University, USA -- 9. Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House -- Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA and Katherine Wheeler, University of Miami, USA -- Part III: Toys, Play and Design Culture as Instruments of Political and Ideological Indoctrination -- 10. Material Culture in Miniature: Nuremberg Kitchens as Inspirational Toys in the Long 19th Century -- James E. Bryan, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA -- 11. Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture Through Child-Made Objects -- Lynette Townsend, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand -- 12. Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890 to 1918 -- Jakob Zollman, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany -- 13. Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys -- Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State University at Stark, USA -- 14. The 'Appropriate' Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910-1960s -- Valentina Boretti, University of London, UK -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children. Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern 'invention' of childhood - what we might refer to as objects for a childhood by design - Childhood by Design explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood studies) are represented - critically linking historical discourses of childhood with close study of material objects and design culture. Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century child-centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children through television, film and other digital media; and into the present, where the line between the material culture of childhood and adulthood is increasingly ; blurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing; Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children. Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern 'invention' of childhood-what we might refer to as objects for a childhood by design-Childhood by Design explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood studies) are represented - critically linking historical discourses of childhood with close study of material objects and design culture. Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century child-centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children through television, film and other digital media; and into the present, where the line between the material culture of childhood and adulthood is increasingly blurred

The 2017 FIDIC contracts / / William H. Godwin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910877792703321
• Autore: Godwin William <1923->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2020
• ISBN: 9781119514657; 1119514657; 9781119514619; 1119514614; 9781119514640; 1119514649
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 223 p.)
• Disciplina: 343.078624
• Soggetti: Construction contracts; Engineering contracts; Architectural contracts; Contracts (International law); Standardized terms of contract
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Sommario/riassunto: FIDIC contracts are the most widely used engineering standard form contracts internationally but until 2017 the three main forms (the Red, Yellow and Silver Books) had not been amended or updated for nearly two decades, since the first editions were published in 1999. Written by a specialist lawyer who was member of the FIDIC Updates Task Group responsible for writing the new contracts, this book examines in detail the many substantial changes they have introduced. After providing an overview the contracts are examined clause by clause with the aim of showing how each compares and contrasts with the others and how the second editions compare and contrast with the first. The first chapter describes how the Red, Yellow and Silver Books evolved from earlier contract forms and the distinctive characteristics of each, before providing an overview of the updates, including new potential risks for ; both Employer and Contractor, and then examining, in the second chapter, key general provisions such as the new rules on notices and limitation of liability. Chapter 3 examines the enhanced role of the Engineer in the Red and Yellow Books/Employer’s Representative’s function in the Silver including the new procedure for determinations as well as the Employer’s obligations and contract administration. The Contractor’s obligations are considered in chapter 4 while chapter 5 examines his responsibility for design in the Yellow and Silver Books. Chapters 6 to 14 deal respectively with plant, materials and workmanship and staff and labour; time-related provisions in the three contracts including extensions of time, and the Employer’s right to suspend the works; testing on and after completion and the Employer’s taking over of the works; defects after taking over, acceptance of the works and unfulfilled obligations; measurement (in the Red Book), the Contract Price and payment; the new variations regime and adjustments to the Price; termination and suspension; care of the works and indemnities and Exceptional Events (previously, Force Majeure). An important feature of the new contracts is their increased emphasis on clarity in the claims process and on dispute avoidance. These topics are examined in the final two chapters, 15 and 16, which deal respectively with the new claims and dispute resolution provisions of the 2017 forms. FIDIC contracts are the most widely used standard forms of contract for international engineering and construction projects; Provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the 2017 FIDIC Red, Yellow and Silver Books; Written by a senior specialist lawyer and member of the FIDIC 2017 Updates Task Group responsible for writing the new contracts; Accessible to those with little or no familiarity with FIDIC contracts. The 2017 FIDIC Contracts is an important guide for anyone engaged in international projects, including employers, contractors, engineers, lawyers, suppliers and project financiers/sponsors.