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• ISBN: 9781847883032 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9781847883049 (cloth)
• Physical Description: xii, 641 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
• Edition: English ed.
• Publisher: Oxford ; Berg Publishers, 2010.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 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 Hâmpate; Bâ, "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."

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Handicraft.
Decorative arts.
Industrial arts.