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 .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0719046173 9780719046179 0719046181 9780719046186 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96031364 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Handicraft
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TT145  / .C84 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>745.501