Thinking through Craft

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ID23399124
AuthorsGlenn Adamson (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThinking Through Craft (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781350036062
OpenAlexW622048224
Open LibraryOL51656116M
ISBN9781350036062
LanguageEN
Citations received76

Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high ‘production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts.

Aesthetics · Amateur · Art · Class (philosophy) · Craft · Epistemology · Identity (music) · The arts · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Workmanship · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Philosophy

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