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.
0719046173 9780719046179 0719046181 9780719046186
96031364
Handicraft
TT145 / .C84 1997
745.501
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.
0719046173 9780719046179 0719046181 9780719046186
96031364
Handicraft
TT145 / .C84 1997
745.501