THINKING THROUGH CRAFT

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Glenn Adamsons books include Fewer Better Things The Invention of Craft and The Craft Reader. His writings have also been published in museum catalogues and in Art in America Antiques frieze and other periodicals. He was previously director of the Museum of Arts and Design New York and has held appointments as Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and as Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. He lives in the Hudson Valley New York.Also available in hardback 9781845206468 50.00 (October 2007)Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum where he leads a graduate program in the History of Design. He holds degrees in Art History from Cornell University (BA) and from Yale University (PhD). Dr. Adamson was previously curator at the Chipstone Foundation and in that capacity prepared exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum and taught Art History at the University of WisconsinMadison. He is the coeditor (with Tanya Harrod and Edward S. Cooke Jr.) of the Journal of Modern Craft the only academic journal in the subject area which will launch in March 2008.Copublished in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to todays visual arts when high śproduction values are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet crafts centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichęd 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 secondclass identity supplementarity sensuality skill the pastoral and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing crafts 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.IntroductionChapter 1: SupplementalHomage to BrancusiWearable Sculptures: Modern Jewelry and the Problem of Autonomy Reframing the Pattern and Decoration Movement PropsChapter 2: SensualCeramic Presence: Peter VoulkosThe Essence of Clay: Yagi Kazuo The Materialization of the Art Object 196672 BreathChapter 3. Skilled Learning by Doing: Teaching Modern Craft Thinking in Situations: Josef AlbersLearning Architecture: Charles Jencks and Kenneth Frampton Chapter 4: Pastoral Regions Apart Two Versions of PastoralNorth South East WestChapter 5: Amateur The Worlds Most Fascinating Hobby: Robert ArnesonFeminism and the Politics of Amateurism Abject Craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey EminConclusionAt a time when technical skill has been

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