NeoCraft : modernity and the crafts / edited by Sandra Alfoldy.

Title: 
NeoCraft : modernity and the crafts / edited by Sandra Alfoldy.

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Publisher: 
Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, c2007.
Description: 
xxii, 273 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Other Authors: 
Alfoldy, Sandra, 1969-
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Press.
Subjects: 
Decorative arts Philosophy.
Design Philosophy.
Modernism (Art)
Culture in art.
Bib ID: 
129659
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Notes: 
Harvey K. Littleton glass sculpture: p. 11.
Purchase; Amazon; 2012; 1000101285
"Scholars, craftspeople, and curators including Bruce Metcalf, Larry Shiner, David [Brian] Howard, Grace Cochrane, John Potvin, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, B. Lynne Milgram, Janice Helland, Elizabeth Cumming, Alla Myzelev, David Howes, Tanya Harrod, Love Jönsson, Mike Press explore the reality of craft practice that engages with the modernizing world"--From publisher description.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 
Cultural redundancy or the genre under threat --
Global craft --
Crafts and political economy --
Invention of tradition: craft and utopian ideals --
Craft, the senses, and new technologies.
ISBN: 
9780919616479
091961647X