Thinking through craft
This book is an 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 atte...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York ; Dublin :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
[2021]
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| Sumario: | This book is an 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 -- Contracubierta |
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| Notas: | En el verso de la portada: English edition first published in Great Britain by Berg 2007; reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017; this edition published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2018; reprinted 2019, 2020 (twice), 2021 |
| Descripción Física: | X, 209 páginas, 16 páginas de láminas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro y color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice |
| ISBN: | 9781350092631 |
