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Title Choosing craft : the artist's viewpoint / edited by Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; PART 1: CHOOSING CRAFT; 1 INTEGRATING ART AND LIFE; 2 INHERITING A PATH; 3 RESPONDING TO MATERIALS; PART 2: GETTING AN EDUCATION; 4 TRAINING WITH MASTERS; 5 STUDYING IN THE ACADEMY; 6 LEARNING IN COMMUNITIES; PART 3: MAKING A LIVING; 7 STARTING A BUSINESS; 8 ENGAGING THE MARKET; 9 WORKING FOR INDUSTRY; PART 4: CONFRONTING CRAFT; 10 TESTING TRADITION; 11 CRITIQUING CULTURE; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft?inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Handicraft -- United States -- History
Artisans -- United States -- Anecdotes
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Dough.
Artisans
Handicraft
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Anecdotes
History
Form Electronic book
Author Halper, Vicki.
Douglas, Diane, 1951-
LC no. 2008043772
ISBN 9780807889923
080788992X