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Craft : an American history
\"A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Art in the making : artists and their materials from the studio to crowdsourcing
Today's artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art. Here, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson argue that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists' motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the value of objects, the economic and social contexts from which they emerge, and their approach to the perceived opposition between materiality and conceptualism in art.
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Global Design History
Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history.Global Design Historymoves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on objects, and the stories they can tell us about cultural interactions on a global scale. They place these concrete things into contexts, such as trade, empire, mediation, and various forms of design practice. Among the varied topics included are: The global underpinnings of Renaissance material cultureThe trade of Indian cottons in the eighteenth centuryThe Japanese tea ceremony as a case of ‘import substitution’German design in the context of empireHandcrafted modernist furniture in TurkeyAustralian fashions employing ‘ethnic’ motifsAn experimental UK-Ghanaian design partnershipChinese social networking websitesThe international circulation of contemporary architects Featuring work from leading design historians, each chapter is paired with a ‘response’, designed to expand the discussion and test the methodologies on offer. An extensive bibliography and resource guide will also aid further research, providing students with a user-friendly model for approaches to global design.Global Design Historywill be useful for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and researchers in design history and art history, and related subjects such as anthropology, craft studies and cultural geography.
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Things of beauty growing : British studio pottery
\"For nearly a century British potters have invigorated traditional ceramic forms by developing or reinventing techniques, materials, and means of display. Things of Beauty Growing explores major typologies of the vessel--such as bowl, vase, and charger--that have defined studio ceramics since the early 20th century. It places British studio pottery within the context of objects from Europe, Japan, and Korea and presents essays by an international team of scholars and experts. The book highlights the objects themselves, including new works by Adam Buick, Halima Cassell, and Nao Matsunago, featured alongside works by William Staite Murray, Lucie Rie, Edmund de Waal, and others, many published here for the first time. Rounding out the beautifully illustrated volume is an interview with renowned collector John Driscoll and approximately fifty illustrated short biographies of significant makers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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California design 1930-1965 : living in a modern way
The heart of 'California Design' is the modern California home, famously characterized by open plans conducive to outdoor living. The layouts of modernist homes were intended to blur the distinction between indoors and out.
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Studio Job : monkey business
Studio Job redefines the applied arts for the contemporary age. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel's collaboration creates highly expressive work where the physical potential of the materials they use-often bronze or laser-cut marquetry-is pushed to the limit, with an approach more in keeping with that of traditional guilds than industrial design. Studio Job: Monkey Business includes furnishings, sculptures, exhibitions, commissioned interiors, and the designers' own home, tracing the past five years of Studio Job's creative vision. Opulent, intricate, and ironic, the work of Studio Job combines an extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship with extreme ornamentation. Studio Job draws from the traditional and the topical, the organic and the artificial. With design inspired by illuminated manuscripts and more than 200 sketches, concept renderings, and photographs, Studio Job: Monkey Business is the ultimate expression of two of the most influential designers working today. Exhibition: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (22.03-21.08.2016) / Design Museum, London, UK (fall 2016).
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Books : \The last sane man : Michael Cardew : modern pots, colonialism and the counterculture,\ by Tanya Harrod
The book \"The last sane man : Michael Cardew : modern pots, colonialism and the counterculture,\" by Tanya Harrod is reviewed (Yale University Press, 2012). It is a biography of the potter.
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Summer Work: The Art of Pae White
Contemporary art does lots of things well, but does not often succeed with the sort of considered optimism demonstrated in the work of Pae White. Hers is a genuinely life-affirming gesture. In common with many successful artists today, she is constantly on the move, completing multiple exhibitions and commissions scattered across the USA and Europe. For an artistic intervention in the permanent galleries at the Museum fur angewandte Kunst in Vienna she decided to work with a collection of toys in the museum's collection. This project in Vienna is the culmination of a trend that has been evident for some time in her work. As she frequently has her work made by others, an important area of expertise lies in the sourcing and management of skilful producers. She affords a calculated degree of agency to her collaborators. When she has a piece fabricated she rarely asks for a revision, and she values the lack of control that she has in the fabrication process, which makes for a richness, surprise, maybe even a contradiction that she would be too self-conscious to produce on her own. A similar dynamics holds true for what are perhaps White's best-known works, massive tapestries bearing images of fleeting beauty. The series, which began in 2006, has included such ethereal subject matter as a light effect playing in a bank of fog, or a single wisp of smoke against an inky black background.
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Recent acquisitions of postmodern design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
This article illustrates and comments on a selection from around 85 recent acquisitions in the area of postmodern design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, relating to an exhibition entitled \"Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 to 1900\" on show at the Museum (24 Sept. 2011-15 Jan. 2012). The exhibition attempts to define this anti-definitive movement, and includes works in a range of media by various artists and designers, including Howard Meister (b.1953), Wendy Maruyama, Judith Grinberg, Ron Arad (b.1951), Bernard Schobinger (b.1946), Frank Schreiner, Betty Woodman (b.1930), Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007), Peter Shire (b.1947), Martine Bedin (b.1957), and April Greiman (b.1948). (Quotes from original text)
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