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    Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.

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    • Title:Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.
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    • Author/Creator:Adamson, Glenn.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art--Technique.
      Handicraft.
      Workmanship.
    • Edition:English ed.
    • Description:x, 209 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
    • Summary:This volume provides an introduction to the varied concepts and theories of modern arts and crafts. The author writes about craft as a process or an approach -- not as things. He demonstrates the complex interdependencies of craft and art as well as "craft's" own conflicting historical tendencies. The author presents five aspects of "craft's" supposed second-class identity: supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. Contrary to the implied second-class status of these themes, he suggests that these are in fact the things that make craft significant and unique.
      This book provides an introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-201) and index.
    • ISBN:1845206460 (hbk.)
      1845206479 (pbk.)
      9781845206468 (hbk.)
      9781845206475 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Craft at the limits
      Craft as a process
      Supplemental
      Homage to Brancusi
      Wearable sculptures : modern jewelry and the problem of autonomy
      Reframing the pattern and decoration movement
      Props : Gijs Bakker and Gord Peteran
      Material
      Ceramic presence : Peter Voulkos
      Natural limitations : Stephen De Staebler and Ken Price
      Crawling through mud : Yagi Kazuo
      The materialization of the art object, 1966-72
      Breath : Dale Chihuly and Emma Wooffenden
      Skilled
      Circular thinking : David Pye and Michael Baxandall
      Learning by doing
      Thinking in situations : Josef Albers
      from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain
      Charles Jencks and Kenneth Frampton : the ad hoc and the tectonic
      Conclusion : skill and the human condition
      Pastoral
      Regions apart
      Two versions of pastoral : Phil Leider and Art Espenet Carpenter
      North, south, east, west : Carl Andre and Robert Smithson
      Landscapes : Gord Peteran and Richard Slee
      Amateur
      "The world's most fascinating hobby" : Robert Arneson
      Feminism and the politics of amateurism
      Abject craft : Mike Kelley and Tracey Emin.
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