Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.
| Author/creator | Adamson, Glenn |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | English ed. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007. |
| Description | x, 209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-201) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007027931 |
| ISBN | 1845206460 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1845206479 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781845206468 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781845206475 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | N 8510 .A33 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |