The Craft Reader

Contemporary Crafts of the World 31. M. C. Richards, Centering 32. Olivia Emery, Craftsman Lifestyle: The Gentle Revolution 33. George Nakashima, The Soul of A Tree: A Master Woodworker's Reflections 34. Edward S. Cooke, Jr., "The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture" PART 4: THE PRESENCE OF CRAFT IN THE AGE OF MASS PRODUCTION Sectional introduction 35. Salvatore Ferragamo, The Shoemaker of Dreams 36. Susan J. Terrio, "Crafting Grand Cru Chocolates in Contemporary France" 37. Sara Berry, "From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town" 38. Nathan Silver, "Modes and Resources of Adhocism" 39. David T. Doris, "Destiny World: Textile Casualties in Southern Nigeria" 40. Sergei Alasheev, "On a Particular Kind of Love and the Specificity of Soviet Production" 41. Iftikhar Dadi, "Plastic Toys and Urban Craft in South Asia" 42. Philip Tinari, "Original Copies" 43. Norbert Wiener, "What is Cybernetics?" 44. Michael L. Dertouzos, "Individualized Automation" 45. Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand 46. European Digital Artists Network (Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz), "Digital Artisans Manifesto" 47. Rafael Cardoso, "Craft Versus Design: Moving Beyond a Tired Dichotomy." PART 5: CRAFT IN THEORY: WORKMANSHIP, ESSENCE, STATUS Sectional Introduction 48. David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship 49. Henri Focillon, "Forms in the Realms of Matter" 50. Elsie Fogerty, Rhythm 51. Amadou Hampate Ba, "African Art: Where the Hand Has Ears" 52. Robert Farris Thompson, "Yoruba Artistic Criticism" 53. Martin Heidegger, "The Thing" 54. Kenneth Frampton, "Rappel a l'Ordre: The Case for the Tectonic" 55. Esther Leslie, "Walter Benjamin: Traces of Craft" 56. Theodor Adorno, "Functionalism Today 57. R. G. Collingwood, "Art and Craft" 58. Patrick Heron, "The Crafts in Relation to Contemporary Art" 59. Harold Rosenberg, "Art and Work" 60. John Bentley Mays, "Comment" 61. Alison Britton, The Maker's Eye PART 6: CRAFT IN ACTION: THE EVERYDAY, ART AND DESIGN Sectional introduction 62. Alfred Gell, "The Enchantment of Technology and the Technology of Enchantment" 63. Patrick R. McNaughton, The Mande Blacksmiths 64. Roland Barthes, "Toys" 65. Lucy Lippard, "Making Something From Nothing (toward a Definition of Women's 'Hobby Art')" 66. Rozsika Parker, "The Creation of Femininity" 67. Carole Tulloch, "There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s" 68. Tanya Harrod, "House-Trained Objects: Notes Towards Writing an Alternative History of Modern Art" 69. Rose Slivka, "The New Ceramic Presence" 70. Philip Leider, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation or, Art and Politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah" 71. Robert Morris, "Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated" 72. Lee Ufan, The Art of Encounter 73. Grayson Perry, "A Refuge for Artists Who Play It Safe" and "Let the Artisans Craft Our Future" 74. Walter Gropius, "The Manifesto of the Bauhaus" 75. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, "Education and the Bauhaus" 76. Don Wallance, Shaping America's Products 77. Marguerite Wildenhain, "A Ceramist Speaks on Design" 78. Charles Eames, "The Making of a Craftsman" 79. Andrea Branzi, "The New Handicrafts" PART 7: CURATORIAL APPROACHES Sectional Introduction 80. Johanna Drucker, "Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture" 81. Tami Katz-Frieberg, "Craftsmen in the Factory of Images" 82. Zandra Ahl, "And What Is Your Title?" 83. Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch, "Craft Hard, Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism in Unruly Contexts" 84. Julia Bryan-Wilson, Liz Collins, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Cat Mazza, and Allison Smith, "The Politics of Craft: A Roundtable" Annotated Guide to Further Reading General Bibliography Index