The persistence of craft : the applied arts today / edited by Paul Greenhalgh.

Title: 
The persistence of craft : the applied arts today / edited by Paul Greenhalgh.

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Publisher: 
London : A & C Black ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Description: 
vi, 218 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Other Authors: 
Greenhalgh, Paul.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Decorative arts History 20th century.
Handicraft History 20th century.
Bib ID: 
76216
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK789.P46
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Variant Title: 
Applied arts today
Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
Glass: p. vi, 5, 7, 11, 15, 21, 26, 41, 46, 65, 73-83, 119, 199.
Contents: 
Chapt. 1. Introduction: craft in a changing world / Paul Greenhalgh --
Chapt. 2. The genre / Paul Greenhalgh --
Chapt. 3. Studio craft and craftical formation / Kaneko Kenji --
Chapt. 4. Art manufacturers of the 21st century / Karen Livingstone --
Chapt. 5. Re-inventing the wheel: the origins of studio pottery / Julian Stair --
Chapt. 6. Creating lasting values / Gareth Williams --
Chapt. 7. Glassmaking and the evolution of the craft process / Keith Cummings --
Chapt. 8. Major themes in contemporary ceramic art / Ronald Kuchta --
Chapt. 9. Site-specific metalwork : an architectural dialogue / Albert Paley --
Chapt. 10. Studio jewellery : mapping the absent body / Linda Sandino --
Chapt. 11. Poor materials imaginatively applied : new approaches to furniture / Joellen Secondo --
Chapt. 12. The transformation of textile art : a Japanese case study / Yoko Imai --
Chapt. 13. Neo-tradition: a Nordic case study / Widar Halén --
Chapt. 14. Plurality and necessity : an antipodean case study / Janet Mansfield --
Chapt. 15. Shared territory and contested spaces : an anthropological perspective / Carole E. Mayer --
Chapt. 16. Intellectual colonialism: post-war avant-garde jewellery / Simon Fraser --
Chapt. 17. Altogether elsewhere: the figuring of ethnicity / Edmund de Waal --
Chapt. 18. Complexity / Paul Greenhalgh.
ISBN: 
0813532647 (cloth : alk. paper: Rutgers)
071365001X (A & C Black)