The Persistence of Craft: The applied arts today - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071365001X ISBN 13: 9780713650013

Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Studio Craft, in effect, started with the Arts and Crafts Movement, and developed throughout the 20th century. This work looks at studio arts from woodworking, ceramics and glass to jewellery, metalworking and textiles, and discusses the factors that have shaped their development. These range from philosophical considerations such as ethnicity, tradition and Post-Modernism to practicalities such as the development of new techniques and equipment.

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About the Author

Paul Greenhalgh is internationally renowned as an historian of art and design and the decorative arts. For the last decade he has been Director of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, UK, and Professor of Art History and Museum Strategy there. Prior to this, he held a number of senior roles in museum and university life in a number of countries, including Head of Research at the V&A Museum, London, Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design in Washington DC, USA, and President of NSCAD University, Canada. He has published widely on the visual arts, and curated and taught in leading organisations all over the world. He originally trained as a painter before becoming an art historian. Early in his teaching career, he encountered ceramic, which eventually led to Ceramic, Art and Civilisation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071365001X
• ISBN 13: 9780713650013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Greenhalgh Paul