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The persistence of craft : the applied arts today / edited by Paul Greenhalgh.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decorative arts--History--20th century.
- Decorative arts.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In The Persistence of Craft, contributors discuss the development of not only six specific crafts--glass, ceramics, jewelry, wood, textiles, and metal--but also the trends and movements that have helped shape their developments. Includes 180 full-color illustrations.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Craft in a changing world / Paul Greenhalgh
- The genre / Paul Greenhalgh
- Studio craft and craftical formation / Kaneko Kenji
- Art manufacturers of the 21st century / Karen Livingstone
- Re-inventing the wheel - the origins of studio pottery / Julian Stair
- Creating lasting values / Gareth Williams
- Glassmaking and the evolution of the craft process / Keith Cummings
- Major themes in contemporary ceramic art / Ronald Kuchta
- Site-specific metalwork : an architectural dialogue / Albert Paley
- Studio jewellery : mapping the absent body / Linda Sandino
- Poor materials imaginatively applied : new approaches to furniture / Joellen Secondo
- The transformation of textile art : a Japanese case study / Yoko Imai
- Neo-tradition : a Nordic case study / Widar Halén
- Plurality and necessity : an antipodean case study / Janet Mansfield
- Shared territory and contested spaces : an anthropological perspective / Carole E. Mayer
- Intellectual colonialism : post-war avant-garde jewellery / Simon Fraser
- Altogether elsewhere : the figuring of ethnicity / Edmund de Waal
- Complexity / Paul Greenhalgh.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : A & C Black, 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0813532647
- OCLC:
- 50424035
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