Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.

Author/creator Adamson, Glenn
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Descriptionx, 209 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-201) and index.
LCCN 2007027931
ISBN1845206460 (hbk.)
ISBN1845206479 (pbk.)
ISBN9781845206468 (hbk.)
ISBN9781845206475 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N 8510 .A33 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold