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Zusatztext [R]ecommended to both art and design theorists and anyone else anxious to engage in theorizing about craft. Informationen zum Autor Glenn Adamson' s 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 . Klappentext Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd 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 second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's 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. Zusammenfassung Co-published 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 today's visual arts, when high ‘production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd 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 second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Supplemental"Homage to Brancusi"Wearable 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, 1966-72 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 World's Most Fascinating Hobby": Robert ArnesonFeminism and the Politics of Amateurism Abject Craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey EminConclusion...
