Thinking through Craft

Adamson, Glenn

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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.
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Schrijver
Adamson, Glenn
Titel
Thinking through Craft
Uitgever
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Jaar
2018
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
224
Gewicht
480 gr
EAN
9781350092631
Afmetingen
241 x 171 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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