The culture of craft : status and future /

The culture of craft : status and future / edited by Peter Dormer. - xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Studies in design and material culture . - Studies in design and material culture .

Notes on contributors -- General editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The salon de refuse? -- The history of craft -- How strange the change from major to minor: hierarchies and medieval art -- Craft and art, culture and biology -- Craft within a consuming society -- The progress of Captain Ludd -- Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design -- Craft and the Turing Test for practical thinking -- CADCAM and the British ceramics tableware industry -- Textiles and technology -- Tornadoes, T-squares and technology: can computing be a craft? -- Writing about the studio crafts -- Writing about objects we don't understand -- The language and practical philosophy of craft -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

"Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. The question of computer aided design in craft is also addressed."--Publisher description.

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Handicraft

TT145 / .C84 1997

745.501

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