Choosing Craft The Artist's Viewpoint

Name: Choosing Craft The Artist's Viewpoint
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ISBN: 9780807831199

ISBN-10: 0807831190

ISBN-13: 9780807831199

Edition: 2009

Authors: Vicki Halper, Diane Douglas

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Choosing Craftexplores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices.The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/15/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Vicki Halper is an independent curator and writer and former associate curator of modern art at Seattle Art Museum.

Diane Douglas is executive director of Seattle CityClub and former director of the Bellevue Arts Museum.