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Thinking through craft
- Title
- Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.
- Author
- Adamson, Glenn.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- x, 209 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-201) and index.
- 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 -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-2538
- ISBN
- 1845206460
- 9781845206468
- 1845206479
- 9781845206475
- LCCN
- 2007027931
- OCLC
- 141384420
- Author
- Adamson, Glenn.
- Title
- Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
- Edition
- English ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-201) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-2538