All Outputs (5)

Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching (2022)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2022). Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00034_1

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that cal... Read More about Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching.

Small paths (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2020). Small paths. Hoosac Institute Journal, 5,

A personal creative non-fiction text published in the Hoosac Institute Journal - ‘Small Paths’ is about woodland, nature, countryside, childhood and miscarriage. Written during May 2020, it is also entangled in Covid19 era isolation.

Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s) (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2020). Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s). Journal of Modern Craft, 13(2), 137-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2020.1815401

This article presents the glass figurine as means of understanding making and socialist modernity in Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of Socialism (late 1940s-1960s). Through studying the work of glass artists such as Jaroslav Brychta and... Read More about Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s).

Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970 (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2016). Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 23(2), 333-337. https://doi.org/10.1086/691620

Critical Review of Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970, Publication and exhibition. UMPRUM Galle... Read More about Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970.

The pursuit of exceptional typicality: Glass-making in Communist Czechoslovakia (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2016). The pursuit of exceptional typicality: Glass-making in Communist Czechoslovakia

Article for Glass Circle Magazine exploring ideas of 'exceptional typicality' stemming from my PhD research, looking at the role of Czech glass figurines (and related glass objects) in Socialist Czechoslovakia.