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词条 Penny Sparke
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Academic career

     Other work 

  3. Selected works

  4. External links

  5. References

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Penelope Anne "Penny" Sparke (born 6 November 1948) is a British writer and academic specialising in the history of design. She has been Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London, since 1999, where she is also Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre.

Early life and education

Sparke was born on 6 November 1948 in London, England.[1] She studied French Literature at Sussex University between 1967 and 1971, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[1][2] She remained at Sussex to undertake a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), which she completed in 1972.[1] She undertook postgraduate research at Brighton Polytechnic, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Design History in 1975.[1][2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Theory and design in the age of pop".[3] Sparke was awarded an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts in 2016.[4]

Academic career

From 1975 to 1982, Sparke was a lecturer in design history at Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton).[1] She was then a lecturer in design history at the Royal College of Art in London between 1982 and 1999.[5] In 1999, she joined Kingston University, London, where she had been appointed Professor of Design History.[1] She additionally served as Dean of its Faculty of Art, Design and Music from 1999 to 2005, and as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) from 2005 to 2014.[1]

Sparke has written 15 books about Twentieth-Century Design. She has also curated a number of exhibitions, including The Plastics Age at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1990.[6] Her areas of specialism include design history, history of the modern interior, and design and gender.[5] In 2010, Sparke’s book The Genius of Design was published to accompany a 5-part BBC2 television series, 'The Genius of Design' which was broadcast in 2009.[7][8]

Other work

In 2007 Sparke, worked as a consultant for Pyrex helping with the communication project for their new cookware range designed by George Sowden.

She was previously the Course Director of the V&A Museum/Royal College of Art Postgraduate History of Design Programme.[9]

Sparke is currently Chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Design History, published by the Design History Society.[10]

Selected works

  • 1982 Ettore Sottsass Jnr. Design Council {{ISBN|0-85072-126-1}}
  • 1983 Consultant Design: The History and Practice of the Designer in Industry, Pembridge Press {{ISBN|0-8620-6007-9}}
  • 1986 An Introduction to Design and Culture in the 20th Century, Allen and Unwin, {{ISBN|0-04-701014-2}}
  • 1986 Modern Furniture, Bell and Hyman {{ISBN|0-7135-2630-0}}
  • 1986 Japanese Design, Michael Joseph {{ISBN|0-7181-2875-3}}
  • 1987 Electrical Appliances, Bell and Hyman, {{ISBN|0-7135-2738-2}}
  • 1987 Design in Context, Bloomsbury, {{ISBN|0-7475-0072-X}}
  • 1988 Italian Design, from 1870 to the present, Thames and Hudson {{ISBN|0-500-23531-7}}
  • 1995 As Long As It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, Pandora {{ISBN|0-04-440923-0}}
  • 1998 A Century of Design: Design Pioneers of the Twentieth-Century, Mitchell Beazley, {{ISBN|1-84000-403-7}}
  • 2001 Design Directory: Great Britain, Howard {{ISBN|1-86205-330-8}}
  • 2002 A Century of Car Design, Mitchell Beazley, {{ISBN|1-84000-403-7}}
  • 2004 An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the present, Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0-415-26336-8}}
  • 2005 Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration, Acanthus Press, {{ISBN|0-926494-27-9}}
  • 2008 The Modern Interior, Reaktion Books, {{ISBN|978-1-86189-372-7}}
  • 2010 The Genius of Design, Quadrille Publishing Ltd, {{ISBN|978-1-84400-753-0}}

External links

  • [https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-penny-sparke-576/#group_book Full list of publications and academic articles]

References

1. ^'SPARKE, Prof. Penelope Anne', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 6 Nov 2017
2. ^{{cite web|title=Academic profiles - Professor Penny Sparke|url=http://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-penny-sparke-576/|website=Kingston University London|accessdate=6 November 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Sparke|first1=Penny|title=Theory and design in the age of pop|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675488|website=E-Thesis Online Service|publisher=The British Library Board|accessdate=6 November 2017|date=1975}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.uca.ac.uk/news/uca-announces-honorary-graduates-/|title=uca.ac.uk/news|last=|first=|date=14 June 2016|website=University for the Creative Arts|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
5. ^[https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-penny-sparke-576/ Kingston University: Biography]
6. ^{{Cite book|oclc=20994508|title=The Plastics age : from modernity to post-modernity|last=Sparke|first=Penny|publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum|year=1990|isbn=1-85177-066-6}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/6930/|title=The Genius of Design|last=|first=|date=|website=Kingston University Research Repository|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
8. ^{{Cite book|oclc=587209752|title=The Genius of Design|last=Sparke|first=Penny|publisher=The Overlook Press|year=2010|isbn=|location=New York|pages=}}
9. ^{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=Brenda|title=Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960|date=2003|publisher=Routledge|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-415-28448-1}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/jdh|title=Journal of Design History|last=|first=|date=|website=Oxford Academic Journals|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
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