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The culture of craft : status and future / edited by Peter Dormer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in design and material culturePublisher: Manchester, UK ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, [1997]Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press Copyright date: ©1997Description: xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719046173
  • 9780719046179
  • 0719046181
  • 9780719046186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.501 21
LOC classification:
  • TT145 .C84 1997
Contents:
Notes on contributors -- General editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The salon de refuse? -- 2. The history of craft -- 3. How strange the change from major to minor: hierarchies and medieval art -- 4. Craft and art, culture and biology -- 5. Craft within a consuming society -- 6. The progress of Captain Ludd -- 7. Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design -- 8. Craft and the Turing Test for practical thinking -- 9. CADCAM and the British ceramics tableware industry -- 10. Textiles and technology -- 11. Tornadoes, T-squares and technology: can computing be a craft? -- 12. Writing about the studio crafts -- 13. Writing about objects we don't understand -- 14. The language and practical philosophy of craft -- Index.
Summary: "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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Notes on contributors -- General editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The salon de refuse? -- 2. The history of craft -- 3. How strange the change from major to minor: hierarchies and medieval art -- 4. Craft and art, culture and biology -- 5. Craft within a consuming society -- 6. The progress of Captain Ludd -- 7. Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design -- 8. Craft and the Turing Test for practical thinking -- 9. CADCAM and the British ceramics tableware industry -- 10. Textiles and technology -- 11. Tornadoes, T-squares and technology: can computing be a craft? -- 12. Writing about the studio crafts -- 13. Writing about objects we don't understand -- 14. The language and practical philosophy of craft -- Index.

"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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