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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 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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"This book is an excellent resource for anyone working in the 3D arts. Glenn Adamson received his pHD from Yale...and basically this is his dissertation.
Good connections between french theory and contemporary craft practices. Also get "The Craft Reader" his bibliography from this series of research."
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Thinking Through Craft Glenn Adamson Books Reviews
- An uncommon and well thought out consideration of an entire breadth of media and activity many of us in the fine arts acknowledge as integral to our own work, but can't always put into words, this text digs into the separation of craft and Art while examining it objectively and succinctly. This books chews a lot of serious material into manageable pieces without diminishing any of them...incredibly helpful, interesting, and hard-to-put-down read that offers a lot of valuable information people of all creative fields can benefit from.
- This is a really academic/cerebral approach to the topic, which is incredibly interesting, btw. I felt the writing was a little self indulgent, but if you can sift through all of that, it is worth reading, especially since there are so few books on the topic of craft vs. fine art.
- Cannot begin to think how challenging it would be to tackle some of the more difficult questions about the world of fine craft. From the ever-present questions concerning crafts relationship to art, and vice-versa, to the less emotional questions concerning fine crafts place in modern culture. This book speaks to those topics and more.
Easy to pick up, place down, and pick up again. Deftly handled by one of the genre's better authors...if not one of its best. - A solid fixture in the pantheon of the literature on craft. Adamson's thinking is clear and the writing is superb. For anyone interested in craft's role in contemporary society, this is a must read along with David Pye's "The Nature and Art of Workmanship".
- Assigned by a professor. It was good. Not the best I've read.
- Excellent condition and an excellent book. I am really enjoying it. Thank you!
- This book tackles in a very sucint and precise way the ample and varied concepts of modern arts and crafts.
It gives you the necessary conceptual references to understand craft in the contemporary scenario, all backed up by sound examples of practicing artist and artisans.
A must read book along with The Craft Reader from the same author.
For me, after years mining for this kind of information, it is a kind of relief to have found these books in a field where rarely books of this magnitude appears. - This book is an excellent resource for anyone working in the 3D arts. Glenn Adamson received his pHD from Yale...and basically this is his dissertation.
Good connections between french theory and contemporary craft practices. Also get "The Craft Reader" his bibliography from this series of research.
