Description: Thinking through Craft by Glenn Adamson (Author) Format:Paperback / softback 224 pages, 44 bw and 16 colour illustrations, biblio, index Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint:Bloomsbury Visual Arts ISBN:9781350092631 Published:1 Oct 2018 Classifications:Decorative arts, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Weight:492g Dimensions:172 x 242 x 15 (mm) Description 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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Author: Glenn Adamson
Publication Name: Thinking Through Craft
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 476 g
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
