Do it yourself: Democracy and Design
Special Issue, Journal of Design History, Volume 19:1, 2006
Edited by Paul Atkinson

DIY has acted as a leveller of class– overcoming the social
stigma of manual labor, and permitting the working classes to
engage in leisure activities from which they were previously
excluded. This issue attempts to broaden existing work in the
area by taking this aspect of design democracy as its unifying
theme, and expanding the notion of DIY from the narrow
perspective in which it is often held.

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Articles
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The Monkey with the Magnifying Glass: Constructions of the Connoisseur in
Eighteenth-Century Britain
Harry Mount
Oxford Art J 2006 29:167-184.

Virgil's Prospects: The Gentry and the Representation of Landscape in
Addison's Theory of the Imagination
Nick Grindle
Oxford Art J 2006 29:185-195.

The Trouble with Tatius
Tony Halliday
Oxford Art J 2006 29:197-211.

Spectacle and Spectator in Edouard Manet's Execution of Maximilian
Kristine Ibsen
Oxford Art J 2006 29:213-226.

Defining Landscape Painting in Nineteenth-Century American Critical
Discourse. Or, Should Art 'Deal in Wares the Age Has Need of'?
Karen L. Georgi
Oxford Art J 2006 29:227-245.

Confronting Postwar Shame in Weimar Germany: Trauma, Heroism and the War
Art of Otto Dix
Paul Fox
Oxford Art J 2006 29:247-267.

Rough Poetry: Patio and Pavilion Revisited
Ben Highmore
Oxford Art J 2006 29:269-290.

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Reviews
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Reality Check
Paul Wood
Oxford Art J 2006 29:291-296.

The Triumph of Virginity
Emma Stirrup
Oxford Art J 2006 29:296-299.

Writing German Art History
Mitchell Frank
Oxford Art J 2006 29:299-303.

About Gossip
Satish Padiyar
Oxford Art J 2006 29:303-306.

Surrealism and Politics: Interpretation, Determinism and Art History
Gavin Parkinson
Oxford Art J 2006 29:306-312.

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Abstracts
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Abstracts
Oxford Art J 2006 29:313-315.

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Notes on Contributors
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Notes on Contributors
Oxford Art J 2006 29:316.