The Journal of Modern Craft Volume 1 Issue 3 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847882544 ISBN 13: 9781847882547

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2008

Synopsis

The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production--whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artifacts.

The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations. It starts in the mid-nineteenth-century when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization and follows through to the present day when ideas confined to the ‘applied arts' have become crucial across a huge range of cultural activities.

Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. The journal also reviews and analyzes the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art, and other fields.
The Journal of Modern Craft is the main scholarly voice on the subject of craft, conceived both as an idea and as a field of practice in its own right.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn Adamson is at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Tanya Harrod is at the Royal College of Art in London. Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is at Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847882544
• ISBN 13: 9781847882547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Adamson Glenn, Harrod Tanya, Cooke Edward S.