Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945 : the history of twentieth-century American craft / Janet Kardon, editor ; with essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter. . . [et al.].

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Other Authors:

Kardon, Janet.

Bletter, Rosemarie Haag.

American Craft Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher:

New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum, 1995.

Subjects:

Decorative arts United States History 20th century.

Decorative arts United States Foreign influences.

Decorative arts United States Technological innovations.

Glass - United States

Record Number

ISBN:

0810919680

Bib ID:

45927

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Description

304 p. : ill (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Notes

Reviewed by Tanya Harrod in Crafts (U.K.), no. 138, Jan./Feb. 1996, pp. 58-59.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-284) and index.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition by the same name held at the American Craft Museum, New York City, Oct. 18, 1995 - Feb. 25, 1996.

Contents:

Craft in the machine age / Janet Kardon --
The promise and peril of high technology / Harvey Green --
The myths of modernism / Rosemarie Haag Bletter --
Seeing through surfaces : American craft as material culture / Karen Lucic --
Charting a new educational vision / Marcia Yockey Manhart --
Against the grain : modern American woodwork / Kate Carmel --
The making of modern art glass / April Kingsley --
Modernism and American ceramics / Barbara Perry --
Textiles : surface, structure, and serial production / Mary Schoeser --
Striking the modern note in metal / Jewel Stern --
Resource list / Tara Leigh Tappert.

Object/Material Note:

Includes CMoG objects: 69.4.255, p. 1 --
59.4.162, p. 5 --
52.4.324, p. 14 --
59.4.150, p. 15 --
78.4.38, p. 92 --
72.4.222, p. 95 (bottom) --
92.4.121, p. 162 (bottom) --
89.4.30, p. 164 (bottom) --
89.4.34, p. 165 --
85.4.83 A-6, p. 166 (bottom) --
85.4.83 B-4, p. 166 (bottom).

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