Exploring Contemporary Craft History Theory And Critical Writing

Author : Jean Johnson
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1552451070

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Exploring Contemporary Craft by Jean Johnson Pdf

The craft of craft, the art of craft – here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a wildly successful symposium on the state of craft in Canada. Curators, writers, critics, academics and craftspeople spoke about all aspects of craft: history, practice, theory, criticism. Taken together, these papers create a clear picture of the vibrant crafts scene in Canada. The symposium was a groundbreaking event, a first in Canada, offering to the crafts community a new depth of consideration. The book, too, is a Canadian first, and it will allow a dialogue about the academic side of the craft movement to continue. Each of the book's three sections, History, Theory and Critical Writing, contains a keynote paper and essays by experts in each field, including Mark Kingwell writing 'On Style,' Blake Gopnik on 'Reviewing Craft Exhibitions for the Art Pages,' and Robin Metcalfe addressing 'Teacup Readings: Contextualizing Craft in the Art Gallery.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091200043

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Exploring Contemporary Craft History, Theory and Critical Writing by Anonim Pdf

The craft of craft, the art of craft - here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a wildly successful symposium on the state of craft in Canada. Curators, writers, critics, academics and craftspeople spoke about all aspects of craft: history, practice, theory, criticism. Taken together, these papers create a clear picture of the vibrant crafts scene in Canada. The symposium was a groundbreaking event, a first in Canada, offering to the crafts community a new depth of consideration. The book, too, is a Canadian first, and it will allow a dialogue about the academic side of the craft movement to continue. Each of the book's three sections, History, Theory and Critical Writing, contains a keynote paper and essays by experts in each field, including Mark Kingwell writing 'On Style,' Blake Gopnik on 'Reviewing Craft Exhibitions for the Art Pages,' and Robin Metcalfe addressing 'Teacup Readings: Contextualizing Craft in the Art Gallery.'

Author : Sandra Alfoldy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773572645

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Crafting Identity by Sandra Alfoldy Pdf

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 1964-74 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, the foundation of the World Crafts Council (1964) and the Canadian Crafts Council (1974), the Canadian Fine Crafts exhibition at Expo 67, and the In Praise of Hands exhibition of 1974. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexploited materials, this richly documented survey includes descriptions and illustrations of significant works and identifies the challenges that lie ahead for professional crafts in Canada.

Author : Melanie Egan,Alan C. Elder,Jean Johnson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781772823776

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Crafting new traditions by Melanie Egan,Alan C. Elder,Jean Johnson Pdf

Crafting New Traditions: Canadian Innovators and Influences brings together the work of eleven historians and craftspeople to address the two questions of “who has influenced the recent history of Canadian studio craft?” and “who will be considered as the ‘pioneers’ of Canadian craft in the future?”

Author : Linda Sandino,Matthew Partington
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857851987

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Oral History in the Visual Arts by Linda Sandino,Matthew Partington Pdf

The first book to explore the theory and practice of oral history as a methodology across a wide range fields including art, design, fashion, textiles, museum studies, history and craft.

Author : Vicki Halper,Diane Douglas
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780807889923

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Choosing Craft by Vicki Halper,Diane Douglas Pdf

Choosing Craft explores 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 writings, letters, journal entries, exhibition statements, lecture notes, and oral histories. The detailed record they amassed reveals craft's dynamic relationships with painting, sculpture, design, industry, folk and ethnic traditions, hobby craft, and political and social movements. Collectively, these reflections form a social history of craft. Choosing Craft ultimately offers artists' writings and recollections as vital and vivid data that deserve widespread study as a primary resource for those interested in the American art form.

Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351575928

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"Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 " by Alla Myzelev Pdf

Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 tells a story of the significant changes in domestic life in the first 40 years of the twentieth century. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to studies of residential spaces, the author examines how questions of modernity and modern living influenced not only architectural designs but also interior furnishings, modes of transportation and ways to spend leisure time. The book discusses several case studies, some of which are known both locally and internationally (for example Casa Loma), while others such as Guild of All Arts or Sherwood have been virtually unstudied by historians of visual culture. The overall goal of the book is to put Toronto on the map of scholars of urban design and architecture and to uncover previously unknown histories of design, craft and domesticity in Toronto. This study will be of interest not only to the academic community (namely architects, designers, craftspeople and scholars of these disciplines, along with social historians), but also the general public interested in local history and/or visual culture.

Author : Trevor H. J. Marchand
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394266

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The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work by Trevor H. J. Marchand Pdf

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Trevor H.J. Marchand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134802296

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Craftwork as Problem Solving by Trevor H.J. Marchand Pdf

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich, textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education, access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding, budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and producing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography, as well as to craftspeople with interests in creativity, skilful practice, perception and ethnography.

Author : Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Families
ISBN : 3631571135

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Reinventing Art of Everyday Making by Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn Pdf

The word 'everyday' is usually loaded with decidedly negative connotations. However, domestic everyday activities are not merely routine work, but also include complex, demanding tasks to solve. Even though everyday problem solving does not necessarily follow logical pathways, it is sensible and effective in handling practical problems. The studies presented in this book explore domestic everyday making, in terms of the kinds of cognitive, social, and practical tasks being faced and the types of skills needed in solving these tasks. The studies also illustrate the different research strategies appropriate to the investigation of the art and skills of domestic everyday making. The target audience of this book includes researchers and students of family and consumer studies, home economics and craft sciences, cultural studies and sociology. Because of the twofold aim of the book, it can be used as a textbook for both content as well as methodological studies.

Author : Rebecca Lynch,Conor Farrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349952359

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Quantified Lives and Vital Data by Rebecca Lynch,Conor Farrington Pdf

This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.

Author : Petrina, Stephen
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781599043395

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Advanced Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom by Petrina, Stephen Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive, critical approach to meeting the new challenges of technology in the classroom. It gathers together research on technology methods, principles, and content, acting as a reference source for proven and innovative methods. It presents an introduction to teaching educational technology, design, and engineering and contains strategies for innovation in technology education"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jeltje Gordon-Lennox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503444

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Emerging Ritual in Secular Societies by Jeltje Gordon-Lennox Pdf

The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures. The relatively new field of ritology, which includes neuroscience, anthropology, cultural psychology, psychotherapy and even art and performance, raises questions about the significance and practice of ritual today. This book is the first of its kind to discuss the importance of secular rituals for cultural and personal growth. Using a transdisciplinary approach, a range of contributors provide an authoritative account of the science and history of rituals and their role in creating healthy societies in the modern age.

Author : Alexandra Palmer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0802085903

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Fashion by Alexandra Palmer Pdf

Controversial and unconventional, this collection examines Canadian identity in terms of the fashion worn and designed over the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions.