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Choosing craft : the artist's viewpoint / edited by Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Handicraft--United States--History.
- Handicraft.
- Artisans--United States--Anecdotes.
- Artisans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART 1: CHOOSING CRAFT; 1 INTEGRATING ART AND LIFE; 2 INHERITING A PATH; 3 RESPONDING TO MATERIALS; PART 2: GETTING AN EDUCATION; 4 TRAINING WITH MASTERS; 5 STUDYING IN THE ACADEMY; 6 LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES; PART 3: MAKING A LIVING; 7 STARTING A BUSINESS; 8 ENGAGING THE MARKET; 9 WORKING FOR INDUSTRY; PART 4: CONFRONTING CRAFT; 10 TESTING TRADITION; 11 CRITIQUING CULTURE; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908795-0-9
- 0-8078-8992-X
- OCLC:
- 646811437
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