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Thinking through Craft (Paperback)
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Thinking through Craft (Paperback)
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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 cliched 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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