Thinking Through Craft

Name: Thinking Through Craft
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ISBN: 9781845206475

ISBN-10: 1845206479

ISBN-13: 9781845206475

Edition: 2007

Authors: Glenn Adamson

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Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians.Dispensing with clichd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee.



Introduction



Preface



The Tracking Shot in Kapo



Cine-biography



Cinema and History



Travelling Cinephile



A Night in Ronda



Cinema Would be the Promise of the World



Cinema and Communism: In Defense of a Counter Society



Experience: From Cahiers to LibTration



Cinema and Television: Departure and Return



The Two Cinemas


Notes