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

Dormer, Peter. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0719046181 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; 1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The salon de refuse? / Peter Dormer -- The history of craft / Paul Greenhalgh -- How strange the change from major to minor: hierarchies and medieval art / T.A. Heslop -- Craft and art, culture and biology / Bruce Metcalf -- Craft within a consuming society / Gloria Hickey -- The progress of Captain Ludd / Paul Greenhalgh -- Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design / Helen Rees -- Craft and the Turing Test for practical thinking / Peter Dormer -- CADCAM and the British ceramics tableware industry / Neal French -- Textiles and technology / Peter Dormer -- Tornadoes, T-square and technology: can computing be a craft? / Jeremy Myerson -- Writing about the studio crafts / Rosemary Hill -- Writing about objects we don't understand / Jonathan Meuli -- The language and practical philosophy of craft / Peter Dormer.
Subject:
Handicraft.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design TT145 .C84 1997 (Text) 30242190 Book Volume hold Available -