Choosing craft the artist's viewpoint (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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