Pioneers of modern craft : twelve essays profiling key figures in the history of twentieth-century craft
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Pioneers of modern craft : twelve essays profiling key figures in the history of twentieth-century craft
（Studies in design and material culture）
Manchester University Press, c1997
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- : pbk
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: hbk ISBN 9780719050589
Description
"Pioneers of modern craft" profiles key figures in the history of contemporary twentieth-century crafts. It focuses on the lives and times of prominent individuals who were (or became) influential throughout the pre- and post-war periods in Britain, such as David Pye, Gerald Benney, Gerda Flockinger, Edward Barnsley and William Staite Murray. Based on a series of twelve lectures arranged by the Crafts Council between 1993 and 1995, this volume of essays demonstrates the burgeoning growth in the field of twentieth-century craft history as a subject for serious investigation. This collection should be of value to all those interested in the foundations and development of the crafts which have contributed so much to the vibrant nature of our visual environment in the late twentieth century: historians, lectures, students, makers, collectors, indeed, all those with an interest in the origin of contemporary craft objects. The contributors include Peter Dormer, Colin Banks, Oliver Watson, Mary Schoeser and Annette Carruthers.
The twelve essays are representative of each of the enduring artistic craft disciplines: furniture and woodwork, metalwork, jewellery, ceramics, textiles and lettering and writing.
Table of Contents
- The object is not the object - C.R. Ashbee and the guild of handicraft, Alan Crawford
- Edward Barnsley, Annette Carruthers
- Bernard Leach - rewriting a life, Oliver Watson
- facing fundamental things - Edward Johnston and earning a living, Colin Banks
- William Staite Murray (1881-1962), Malcolm Haslam
- Phyllis Barron (1890-1964) and Dorothy Larcher (1884-1952), Barley Roscoe
- David Pye, Peter Dormer
- Marianne Straub, Mary Schoeser
- Lucy Rie and her work with Hans Coper, Tony Birks
- Gerald Benney, Eric Turner
- a questioning eye - David Kindersley and his workshop, Jeremy Theophilus
- the modern jewellery of Gerda Flockinger, Tanya Harrod.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719050596
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This study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign. It investigates how the flow of information was managed and suppressed at the centre, as well as how James I attempted to mislead a variety of audiences about his policies and intentions. It also examines the reception and unintended consequences of his behaviour, and explores the political significance of the mis- and dis-information that circulated in court and country. It thereby contributes to a wider range of historical debates that reach across the politics and political culture of the reign and beyond, advancing new arguments about censorship, counsel and the formation of policy; propaganda and royal image-making; political rumours and the relationship between elite and popular politics, as well as shedding new light on the nature and success of James I's style of rule. -- .
Table of Contents
- The object is not the object - C.R. Ashbee and the guild of handicraft, Alan Crawford
- Edward Barnsley, Annette Carruthers
- Bernard Leach - rewriting a life, Oliver Watson
- facing fundamental things - Edward Johnston and earning a living, Colin Banks
- William Staite Murray (1881-1962), Malcolm Haslam
- Phyllis Barron (1890-1964) and Dorothy Larcher (1884-1952), Barley Roscoe
- David Pye, Peter Dormer
- Marianne Straub, Mary Schoeser
- Lucy Rie and her work with Hans Coper, Tony Birks
- Gerald Benney, Eric Turner
- a questioning eye - David Kindersley and his workshop, Jeremy Theophilus
- the modern jewellery of Gerda Flockinger, Tanya Harrod.
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