On Craftsmanship - Towards a New Bauhaus

Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.''The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by - among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense of urgency. Why?A bestseller in hardback, this series of linked essays by the man who ran the Royal College of Art for many years is now available in paperback, and explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the language, in the digital age, taking an unsentimental, hard-headed look at craftsmanship today. Only when the romantic cobwebs have been blown away, it argues, can the key importance of the crafts be fully understood.>

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Frayling, Frayling Christopher
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781786820853
• ISBN: 978-1-78682-085-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Oberon Masters Series; Oberon Masters; Oberon Masters Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Individual Artists / Essays, History of art / art & design styles, Art forms, The Arts: treatments and subjects, The Arts: art forms