Thinking through craft /
Adamson, Glenn.
Thinking through craft / - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007. - x, 209 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-201) and index.
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.
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.
1845206460 (hbk.) 9781845206468: £50.00 1845206479 (pbk.) 9781845206468 (hbk.) 9781845206475 (pbk.)
Art--Technique.
Handicraft.
Workmanship.
745.5 / ADA
Thinking through craft / - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007. - x, 209 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-201) and index.
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.
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.
1845206460 (hbk.) 9781845206468: £50.00 1845206479 (pbk.) 9781845206468 (hbk.) 9781845206475 (pbk.)
Art--Technique.
Handicraft.
Workmanship.
745.5 / ADA