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The craft reader /

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2010Description: xii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781847883032
  • 1847883036
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT149 .C733 2016
Contents:
pt. 1. How-to -- 'Introductory remarks', from The Teacher's Handbook of Slöjd / Otto Salomon -- Elements of handicraft and design / W.A.S. Benson -- The wheelwright's shop / George Sturt -- On weaving / Anni Albers -- Primitive pottery / Hal Riegger
pt. 2. Craft and the Industrial Revolution -- On the economy of machines and manufactures / Charles Babbage -- Artisans and machinery / Peter Gaskell -- 'How an aristocracy may emerge from industry', from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Industrial biography: iron workers and tool makers / Samuel Smiles -- Capital / Karl Marx -- 'The primary effects of scientific management', from Labor and monopoly capitalism / Harry Braverman -- The workshop of the world: steam power and hand technology in mid-Victorian Britain / Raphael Samuel -- Technological innovation and design economics in furniture manufacture / Michael Ettema -- Artistic America / Siegried Bing -- In the cause of architecture: the architect and the machine / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Art and the machine / Hermann Muthesius -- Building materials / Adolf Loos -- Handwerk/kunsthandwerk / Stefan Muthesius
pt. 3. Modern craft: idealism and reform -- 'The nature of Gothic', from The Stones of Venice / John Ruskin -- The revival of handicraft / William Morris -- Art and labor / Ellen Gates Starr -- Art and workmanship / W.R. Lethaby -- 'Slogans', 'the work ahead of us' and 'the problem of the relationship between man and object' / Vladimir Tatlin -- 'The way of craftsmanship', from The Unknown craftsman: a Japanese insight into beauty / Sôetsu Yanagi -- A potter's book / Bernard Leach -- Initiation and the crafts / René Guéron -- Indian handicrafts / Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay -- 'The relation of the past to the demands of the present', World Crafts Conference Proceedings (1964) -- Centering / M.C. Richards -- Introduction to Craftsman lifestyle: the gentle revolution / Eudorah Moore -- The soul of a tree / George Nakashima -- The long shadow of William Morris: paradigmatic problems of twentieth-century American furniture / Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
pt. 4. The persistence of craft in the age of mass production -- Shoemaker of dreams / Salvatore Ferragamo -- Crafting grand cru chocolates in contemporary France / Susan J. Terrio -- From peasant to artisan: motor mechanics in a Nigerian town / Sara Berry -- Destiny world: textile casualties in southern Nigeria / David T. Doris -- On a particular kind of love and the specificity of Soviet production / Sergei Alasheev -- Original copies / Philip Tinari -- 'What is cybernetics?', from The Human use of humans / Norbert Wiener -- Abstracting craft: the practiced digital hand / Malcolm McCullough -- 'Digital artisans manifesto', European Digital Artisans Network / Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz -- Craft versus design: moving beyond a tired dichotomy / Rafael Cardoso
pt. 5. Craft in theory: aesthetics, essence, status -- The nature and art of workmanship / David Pye -- 'The genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization, from Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques / Gilbert Simondon -- 'Forms in the realms of matter', from The Life of forms in art / Henri Focillon -- Rhythm / Elsie Fogerty -- The Mande blacksmiths: knowledge, power and art in West Africa / Patrick R. McNaughton -- African art: where the hand has ears / Amadou Hâmpaté Bâ -- Walter Benjamin: traces of craft / Esther Leslie -- Functionalism today / Theodor Adorno --The thing / Martin Heidegger -- Rappel a l'ordre: the case for the tectonic / Kenneth Frampton -- 'Art and craft', from The Principles of art / R.G. Collingwood -- Art and work / Harold Rosenberg -- 'Comment' and responses / John Bentley Mays -- Curatorial comment from The Maker's eye / Alison Britton -- How envy killed the crafts / Garth Clark
pt. 6. Craft in action: life, art, design -- The enchantment of technology and the technology of enchantment / Alfred Gell -- Making something from nothing (toward a definition of women's 'hobby art') / Lucy Lippard -- 'The creation of femininity', from The Subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine / Rozsika Parker -- There's no place like home: home dressmaking and creativity in the Jamaican community of the 1940s to the 1960s / Carole Tulloch -- House-trained objects: notes towards writing an alternative history of modern art / Tanya Harrod -- The new ceramic presence / Rose Slivka -- How I spent my summer vacation or, art and politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah / Philip Leider -- Some notes on the phenomenology of making: the search for the motivated / Robert Morris -- The art of encounter / Lee Ufan -- Let the artisans craft our future / Grayson Perry -- 'Manifesto of the Bauhaus' and 'Education and the Bauhaus' / Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy -- Shaping America's products / Don Wallance -- Asilomar Conference Proceedings 1957 / Marguerite Wildenhain and Charles Eames -- 'The new handicrafts, ' from Hot house / Andrea Branzi
pt. 7. Contemporary approaches -- Affectivity and entropy: production aesthetics in contemporary sculpture / Johanna Drucker -- 'Craftsmen in the factory of images', from BoysCraft / Tami Katz-Freiman -- And what is your title? / Zandra Ahl -- Craft hard, die free: radical curatorial strategies for craftivism in unruly contexts / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch -- The politics of craft: a roundtable / Julia Bryan-White [and others].
Summary: "From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned practitioners, from feminist histories of textiles to descriptions of the innovation born of necessity in Soviet factories and African auto-repair shops, The Craft Reader presents the first comprehensive anthology of writings on modern craft. Covering the period from the Industrial Revolution to today, the Reader draws on craft practice and theory from America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The world of craft is considered in its full breadth -- from pottery and weaving, to couture and chocolate-making, to contemporary art, architecture and curation. The writings are themed into sections and all extracts are individually introduced, placing each in its historical, cultural and artistic context. Bringing together an astonishing range of both classic and contemporary texts, The Craft Reader will be invaluable to any student or practitioner of Craft and also to readers in Art and Design."--Provided by publisher.
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Reprint. Originally published in 2010 by Berg Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. How-to -- 'Introductory remarks', from The Teacher's Handbook of Slöjd / Otto Salomon -- Elements of handicraft and design / W.A.S. Benson -- The wheelwright's shop / George Sturt -- On weaving / Anni Albers -- Primitive pottery / Hal Riegger

pt. 2. Craft and the Industrial Revolution -- On the economy of machines and manufactures / Charles Babbage -- Artisans and machinery / Peter Gaskell -- 'How an aristocracy may emerge from industry', from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Industrial biography: iron workers and tool makers / Samuel Smiles -- Capital / Karl Marx -- 'The primary effects of scientific management', from Labor and monopoly capitalism / Harry Braverman -- The workshop of the world: steam power and hand technology in mid-Victorian Britain / Raphael Samuel -- Technological innovation and design economics in furniture manufacture / Michael Ettema -- Artistic America / Siegried Bing -- In the cause of architecture: the architect and the machine / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Art and the machine / Hermann Muthesius -- Building materials / Adolf Loos -- Handwerk/kunsthandwerk / Stefan Muthesius

pt. 3. Modern craft: idealism and reform -- 'The nature of Gothic', from The Stones of Venice / John Ruskin -- The revival of handicraft / William Morris -- Art and labor / Ellen Gates Starr -- Art and workmanship / W.R. Lethaby -- 'Slogans', 'the work ahead of us' and 'the problem of the relationship between man and object' / Vladimir Tatlin -- 'The way of craftsmanship', from The Unknown craftsman: a Japanese insight into beauty / Sôetsu Yanagi -- A potter's book / Bernard Leach -- Initiation and the crafts / René Guéron -- Indian handicrafts / Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay -- 'The relation of the past to the demands of the present', World Crafts Conference Proceedings (1964) -- Centering / M.C. Richards -- Introduction to Craftsman lifestyle: the gentle revolution / Eudorah Moore -- The soul of a tree / George Nakashima -- The long shadow of William Morris: paradigmatic problems of twentieth-century American furniture / Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

pt. 4. The persistence of craft in the age of mass production -- Shoemaker of dreams / Salvatore Ferragamo -- Crafting grand cru chocolates in contemporary France / Susan J. Terrio -- From peasant to artisan: motor mechanics in a Nigerian town / Sara Berry -- Destiny world: textile casualties in southern Nigeria / David T. Doris -- On a particular kind of love and the specificity of Soviet production / Sergei Alasheev -- Original copies / Philip Tinari -- 'What is cybernetics?', from The Human use of humans / Norbert Wiener -- Abstracting craft: the practiced digital hand / Malcolm McCullough -- 'Digital artisans manifesto', European Digital Artisans Network / Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz -- Craft versus design: moving beyond a tired dichotomy / Rafael Cardoso

pt. 5. Craft in theory: aesthetics, essence, status -- The nature and art of workmanship / David Pye -- 'The genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization, from Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques / Gilbert Simondon -- 'Forms in the realms of matter', from The Life of forms in art / Henri Focillon -- Rhythm / Elsie Fogerty -- The Mande blacksmiths: knowledge, power and art in West Africa / Patrick R. McNaughton -- African art: where the hand has ears / Amadou Hâmpaté Bâ -- Walter Benjamin: traces of craft / Esther Leslie -- Functionalism today / Theodor Adorno --The thing / Martin Heidegger -- Rappel a l'ordre: the case for the tectonic / Kenneth Frampton -- 'Art and craft', from The Principles of art / R.G. Collingwood -- Art and work / Harold Rosenberg -- 'Comment' and responses / John Bentley Mays -- Curatorial comment from The Maker's eye / Alison Britton -- How envy killed the crafts / Garth Clark

pt. 6. Craft in action: life, art, design -- The enchantment of technology and the technology of enchantment / Alfred Gell -- Making something from nothing (toward a definition of women's 'hobby art') / Lucy Lippard -- 'The creation of femininity', from The Subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine / Rozsika Parker -- There's no place like home: home dressmaking and creativity in the Jamaican community of the 1940s to the 1960s / Carole Tulloch -- House-trained objects: notes towards writing an alternative history of modern art / Tanya Harrod -- The new ceramic presence / Rose Slivka -- How I spent my summer vacation or, art and politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah / Philip Leider -- Some notes on the phenomenology of making: the search for the motivated / Robert Morris -- The art of encounter / Lee Ufan -- Let the artisans craft our future / Grayson Perry -- 'Manifesto of the Bauhaus' and 'Education and the Bauhaus' / Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy -- Shaping America's products / Don Wallance -- Asilomar Conference Proceedings 1957 / Marguerite Wildenhain and Charles Eames -- 'The new handicrafts, ' from Hot house / Andrea Branzi

pt. 7. Contemporary approaches -- Affectivity and entropy: production aesthetics in contemporary sculpture / Johanna Drucker -- 'Craftsmen in the factory of images', from BoysCraft / Tami Katz-Freiman -- And what is your title? / Zandra Ahl -- Craft hard, die free: radical curatorial strategies for craftivism in unruly contexts / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch -- The politics of craft: a roundtable / Julia Bryan-White [and others].

"From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned practitioners, from feminist histories of textiles to descriptions of the innovation born of necessity in Soviet factories and African auto-repair shops, The Craft Reader presents the first comprehensive anthology of writings on modern craft. Covering the period from the Industrial Revolution to today, the Reader draws on craft practice and theory from America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The world of craft is considered in its full breadth -- from pottery and weaving, to couture and chocolate-making, to contemporary art, architecture and curation. The writings are themed into sections and all extracts are individually introduced, placing each in its historical, cultural and artistic context. Bringing together an astonishing range of both classic and contemporary texts, The Craft Reader will be invaluable to any student or practitioner of Craft and also to readers in Art and Design."--Provided by publisher.

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