Crafting Identity The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada

Name: Crafting Identity The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada
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ISBN: 9780773528604

ISBN-10: 0773528601

ISBN-13: 9780773528604

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sandra Alfoldy

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By contrasting American experience with the Canadian context, which includes a unique Quebec identity and a Native dimension, Sandra Alfoldy argues that the development of organizations, advanced education for craftspeople, and exhibition and promotional opportunities have contributed to the distinct evolution of professional craft in Canada over the past forty years.Alfoldy focuses on 1964-1974 and the debates over distinctions between professional, self-taught, and amateur craftspeople and between "one-of-a-kind" and "traditional" craft objects. She deals extensively with key people and events, including American philanthropist Aileen Osborn Webb and Canadian philanthropist Joan Chalmers,…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




Pioneering professional craft in Canada



Aileen Osborn Webb and the American Craft Council : establishing a professional craft ideology



1967 : a centennial year of crafts in Canada and a leadership role for native crafts



Professional education, professional aesthetics



The dis/unity of craft : In praise of hands, Toronto, 1974



The professional ascendancy of the crafts