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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Craft Book

I just read this article in the September issue of Art in America. I love to read the book reviews and this topic really caught my attention: the status of craft. The author Garth Clark, a ceramic gallery owner in NYC, wrote that there are two new books on craft theory and that they are the first of their kind since before WWII.
The one is not worth mentioning because Mr. Clark had such criticism of the author's obsession with the line between art and craft, but the Thinking through Craft by Glenn Adamson (Oxford and New York, Berg, 2007; 209 pages) seems interesting.
Mr. Adamson is a recent Yale Phd grad in art history with concentration on modern craft. Adamson uses three reference points when dealing with craft: work, practice and site and contextualizes the role of craft.
This seems like a interesting book and I look forward to getting it from the library.

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