Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamson, Glenn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Technique.

Art.

Handicraft.

Workmanship.

Physical Description:

x, 209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-201) and index.

ISBN:

1845206460

1845206479

9781845206468

9781845206475

OCLC:

141384420

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