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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

What’s beneath the words: a paper journey

Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955

This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia

My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s.

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