The Journal of Modern Craft Volume 2 Issue 2

by Adamson, Glenn; Harrod, Tanya; Cooke, Jr., Edward S.

• ISBN13: 9781847885289
• ISBN10: 1847885284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Journal of Modern Craftis the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass productionwhether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artifacts. The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations, from the mid-nineteenth-century, when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization, through to the present day, when ideas once confined to the 'applied arts' have come to seem vital across a huge range of cultural activities. Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. The journal also reviews and analyzes the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art, and other fields.The Journal of Modern Craftis the main scholarly voice on the subject of craft, conceived both as an idea and as a field of practice in its own right.

Author Biography

Glenn Adamson is at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Tanya Harrod is at Royal College of Art, London. Edward S. Cooke is at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction	p. 127
Articles
Style, Skill and Modernity in the Zisha Pottery of China	p. 129
Elbert Hubbard, Transcendentalism and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America	p. 143
Hungarian Pottery, Politics and Identity: Re-presenting the Ceramic Art of Margit Kovacs (1902-77)	p. 161
Acts of Association: Allison Smith's Craft as Civic Practice	p. 183
Statement of Practice
Looking is a Way of Touching	p. 201
Primary Text
Commentary	p. 211
Application of the Arts to Industry	p. 215
Exhibition Reviews
Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright	p. 221
Cesar, Anthology by Jean Nouvel	p. 225
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan	p. 229
Book Reviews
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan	p. 233
Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in Change	p. 237
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