Craft Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse

Name: Craft Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse
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ISBN: 9781553800521

ISBN-10: 1553800524

ISBN-13: 9781553800521

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paula Gustafson, Nisse Gustafson, Amy Gogarty

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This volume features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as presented in symposiums, exhibition catalogues and art journals. Over 40 full-colour photographs of works in craft media including fibre, ceramics, metal, wood and 'new materials' accompany the essays. The texts in this volume explore the conceptual, social and cultural significance of craft practice today, and describe new initiatives in conceptualising craft practices in contemporary life. Essays by prominent academics and theorists such as Sandra Alfoldy, Paul Mathieu, Arlene Oak, and Kirsty Robertson discuss…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Litdistco
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Craft and the Semiotics of Pattern: A Feminist Perspective


Lisa Samphire: Bending the Bullseye


Ancient Affections: Paul Mathieu's Making China in China


Flowers and Leaves: Constructing Nature


Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft & Free Time


The Art of Camouflage, A Female Touch: Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney


Stardale: A Success Story


Thinking Textile


How to Knit an Academic Paper


Rules of Grammar or Childish Babble?: Interpreting Ornament and Meaning in the Context of Modernity


Immaterial beauty


But is it (ceramic) Art? Ceramics and the "Problem" with Jean-Pierre Larocque's Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art


Louise Perrone's Museum


Sara Washbush: The Parting Glass


Vancouver Sculpture: Craft Concepts


John Macnab: Between Centres


Sarah Link's Drift


Christina Mayr: Focus on the Vessel


How Long is a Piece of String?