Research Catalog

Title

Common ground : contemporary craft, architecture and the decorative arts / [managing editor, Gloria Hickey].

Publication

Hull, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization : with the Institute for Contemporary Canadian Craft, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hickey, Gloria, 1956-
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
• Institute for Contemporary Canadian Craft
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
• Centre canadien d'architecture

Summary

• "This collection of 16 essays reveals provocative common ground between contemporary craft, architecture and decorative arts. The chief feature of the common ground is the integration of designing and making. Long considered the birthright of craftspeople, it is now the focus of contemporary architectural analysis.
• Scholars, architects and craftspeople - inspired by the historical precedent of the Bauhaus and architectural theorists such as Gottfried Semper - probe the contemporary relevance of the relationship between the design process, building or making methods and materials."--Jacket.
• "This volume includes essays by museum and gallery professionals that trace the historical precedents of their craft collections, the patrons who shaped them, and the current direction of institutional policies regarding the collecting and exhibiting of craft. Also included is a photo essay documenting the integration of craft and architecture in a case study of the Fuji Pavilion in the Montreal Botanical Garden."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• Paper / Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies ; 72
• Mercury series

Uniform Title

• Mercury series
• Paper (Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies) no. 72.

Alternative Title

Contemporary craft, architecture and the decorative arts

Subject

• Decorative arts > Social aspects > Congresses
• Design > Social aspects > Congresses
• Handicraft > Social aspects > Congresses
• Architecture and society > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Selection of 16 of the 24 essays presented at a symposium in 1997 at the Musée des beaux arts and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes some text and an abstract in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to a Common ground / Gloria Hickey -- Through the spectacles of the 20th century: Gerrit Reitveld's integrated visual language of craft, design and architecture / Virginia Wright ; La tradition du Bauhaus peut-elle nous instruire aujourd'hui? / Alain Findeli -- Craft in architecture/architectural craft: The meaning of techniques and materials / Myriam Blais ; Tectonic poetry: the recovery of craft in wood frame construction / John Brown ; Inspired light, space inspired: thoughts about light in architecture / Lutz Haufschild ; Conception algorithmique: processus artisanaux de genèse formelle en contexte technologique / Nicolas Reeves ; The craft of architecture / Gerald L. Pocius -- Photo essay: Craft as ornament: a new pavilion in the Botanical Garden of Montréal / Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy -- Mediators of everyday meaning: More than mere shelter: incorporating public art in housing for the homeless / Rae (Anderson) Bridgman ; Crafts: transient/transitional/transgressive bodies / Penelope Kokkinos ; Canonic interpretation of the object: the example of the restored historic house museum / Michael McClelland ; Réelles présences des artisanats du sens / Jean-Pierre Chupin -- Museums and the future of craft, decorative art, and design: Museums and the future of craft, decorative art and design: introduction / Stephen Inglis ; Canadian Museum of Civilization / Stephen Inglis ; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: its history of collecting the decorative arts / Mayo Graham ; Arts décoratifs, métiers d'art et design au Musée du Québec: voies et perspectives / Paul Bourassa ; "Where have we been? What are we? Where are we going?": Art Gallery of Greater Victoria / Patricia Bovey.

ISBN

0660175053

LCCN

cn^98901355^

OCLC

• 45556329
• SCSB-9954407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library