Thinking through craft
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Thinking through craft
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018, c2007
- : pbk
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Originally published in Great Britain by Berg, 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians.
Dispensing with cliched arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Supplemental
"Homage to Brancusi"
Wearable Sculptures: Modern Jewelry and the Problem of Autonomy
Reframing the Pattern and Decoration Movement
Props
Chapter 2: Sensual
Ceramic Presence: Peter Voulkos
The Essence of Clay: Yagi Kazuo
The Materialization of the Art Object, 1966-72
Breath
Chapter 3. Skilled
Learning by Doing: Teaching Modern Craft
Thinking in Situations: Josef Albers
Learning Architecture: Charles Jencks and Kenneth Frampton
Chapter 4: Pastoral
Regions Apart
Two Versions of Pastoral
North, South, East, West
Chapter 5: Amateur
"The World's Most Fascinating Hobby": Robert Arneson
Feminism and the Politics of Amateurism
Abject Craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey Emin
Conclusion
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