Hand, Heart and Soul
Hand, Heart and Soul

Author: Elizabeth Cumming

Publisher: Birlinn Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Arts and Crafts artist-designers changed the lives of Scots. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home design, they aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in diverse fields such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts. Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment - and imagination. Scottish Arts and Crafts brought together British design practice with the romance of tradition. This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and many new names that emerge from the shadows.

Portable Utopia
Portable Utopia

Author: Bernard Aspinwall

Publisher: [Aberdeen] : Aberdeen University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13:

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Poverty in Scotland
Poverty in Scotland

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2007-12-17

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780215037756

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The inquiry into both rural and urban poverty in Scotland was extensive. It was therefore decided to publish the report in two volumes. This report focuses on issues surrounding the definition and measurement of poverty; the effectiveness of Government policy; and the problems of fuel poverty and debt. Child poverty will be the subject of the subsequent report.