The persistence of craft : the applied arts today /
edited by Paul Greenhalgh.
- 218 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
Introduction : Craft in a changing world / Paul Greenhalgh -- The genre / Paul Greenhalgh -- Studio craft and craftical formation / Kaneko Kenji -- Art manufacturers of the 21st century / Karen Livingstone -- Re-inventing the wheel - the origins of studio pottery / Julian Stair -- Creating lasting values / Gareth Williams -- Glassmaking and the evolution of the craft process / Keith Cummings -- Major themes in contemporary ceramic art / Ronald Kuchta -- Site-specific metalwork : an architectural dialogue / Albert Paley -- Studio jewellery : mapping the absent body / Linda Sandino -- Poor materials imaginatively applied : new approaches to furniture / Joellen Secondo -- The transformation of textile art : a Japanese case study / Yoko Imai -- Neo-tradition : a Nordic case study / Widar Halén -- Plurality and necessity : an antipodean case study / Janet Mansfield -- Shared territory and contested spaces : an anthropological perspective / Carole E. Mayer -- Intellectual colonialism : post-war avant-garde jewellery / Simon Fraser -- Altogether elsewhere : the figuring of ethnicity / Edmund de Waal -- Complexity / Paul Greenhalgh.
Studio Craft, in effect, started with the Arts and Crafts Movement, and developed throughout the 20th century. This work looks at studio arts from woodworking, ceramics and glass to jewellery, metalworking and textiles, and discusses the factors that have shaped their development. These range from philosophical considerations such as ethnicity, tradition and Post-Modernism to practicalities such as the development of new techniques and equipment. -- Publisher's website.