How to have a 'good home': The practical aesthetic and normativity in Norway

Journal of Design History

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 241-251

  Garvey, Pauline ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Home decoration; Normativity; Norway; Practical aesthetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 32744454582     PISSN: 09524649     EISSN: 17417279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jdh/16.3.241     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Other published works from this thesis include 'Organized disorder: moving furniture in Norwegian homes', in Daniel Miller (ed.), Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors, Berg, Oxford, 2001.
2. Marianne Gullestad, The Art of Social Relations: Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 1992.
3. Colin Campbell, 'Consumption and the rhetorics of need and want', Journal of Design History, 1998, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 235-46.
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11. Gullestad, op. cit, 1992.
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18. Arne Lie Christensen attempts to explain the current penchant for old things in Norwegian society in terms of technological advancement and accelerated social change. Nostalgia, he posits, is today found in all social classes and is iconic of continuity in a society racked with the contradictory condition of longing for the original, old and secure whilst simultaneously pursuing the new and ephemeral. Arne Lie Christensen, 'Vi som elsker gamle ting', Dugnad, no. 2/3, 1992, pp. 29-44.
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21. Gullestad, op. cit., 1992, p. 80.
22. see also Tove Nederlid, 'Use of nature as a Norwegian characteristic', Ethnologia Scandinavica, vol. 21, 1991, pp. 19-33.
23. Norve, Ethnologia Scandinavica, op. cit., p. 59.
24. Gullestad, Ethnologia Scandinavica, op. cit., 1992, pp. 183-200.
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26. Nina Witoszek, 'Fugitives from utopia: the Scandinavian enlightenment reconsidered', in Øystein Sorensen & Bo Stråth (eds.), The Cultural Construction of Norden, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 1997, p. 86.
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28. Henrik Stenius, 'The good life is a life of conformity: the impact of Lutheran tradition on Nordic political culture', in Sorensen & Stråth, op. cit., p. 165.
29. Richard Wilk, 'A critique of desire: distaste and dislike in consumer behaviour', in Consumption Markets and Culture, vol. 1, no.2, 1997, pp. 175-96.