Craft perception and practice : a Canadian discourse / Glenn Allison [and fifteen others] ; edited by Paula Gustafson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Glenn, author.

Contributor:

Gustafson, Paula, editor.

Series:

Canadian Discourse Series

A Canadian Discourse Series ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decorative arts--Canada--History--20th century.

Decorative arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : Ronsdale Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers, and other craft artists are recognized amongst the world's finest artisans. Craft Perception and Practice celebrates the excellence of Canadian crafts by bringing together twenty-four essays and critical commentaries by sixteen independent critics and curators, professional artists, art historians, and studio art instructors. Highly readable texts by internationally published authors Glenn Allison, Amy Gogarty, Paula Gustafson, Paul Mathieu, Gil McElroy, and Anne McPherson--as well as by noted Canadian painter Mary Pratt--discuss the conceptual, social, and cultural significance of craft media, engage linguistic and feminist theories, and consider aspects of tactile, sensual, and tacit knowledge in the context of works by a distinguished group of Canadian craft artists that includes Prix Saidye Bronfman Award winners Steven Heinemann and Léopold L. Foulem. The inaugural edition of a three-volume series, Craft Perception and Practice features substantive writing about contemporary Canadian craft presented at conferences, in national and international periodicals, and in exhibition catalogues during the past decade. Illustrated with 37 full-page colour photographs. Indexed." This important volume promises to provoke critical discussion on the personal, social, and aesthetic programs of artists who work in craft media."--Dr. Stephen Inglis, Director General of Research, Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Contents:

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

RESPONSE AND REVELATION

Calm Suspense

Speaking in Circles, Throwing in a Straight Line

The Magic of Glass

SURFACE AND IMAGERY

Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Look At It This Way

Embodied reCollections: An Installation by Trudy Ellen Golley

Visual Paradoxes

OBJECTS AND OBJECTIVITY

On the Dignity of Craft

Viewers, Owners, and Objects

The Lives of Objects

Dinner at the Banff Centre

LANGUAGE AND THEORY

Paul Mathieu: Suite Serpentin

Fancy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-55380-208-X

1-55380-082-6

OCLC:

609997989