TY - BOOK ID - 32772788 TI - Thinking through craft PY - 2018 SN - 9781845206475 9781845206468 1845206460 1845206479 9781350092631 PB - London Bloomsbury Visual Arts DB - UniCat KW - Art KW - Handicraft. KW - Workmanship. KW - Artisanat KW - Qualité du travail KW - Technique. KW - Technique KW - Handicraft KW - Workmanship KW - Craftsmanship KW - Quality of products KW - Crafts (Handicrafts) KW - Handcraft KW - Occupations KW - Decorative arts KW - Manual training KW - Sloyd KW - Artisanat d'art KW - Maîtres d'oeuvre KW - Applied arts. Arts and crafts KW - crafts [art genres] KW - philosophy of art KW - kunstkritiek KW - departement Beeldende Kunst 08 KW - kunst & techniek KW - handwerk KW - vakmanschap KW - Artisanat d'art. KW - Maîtres d'oeuvre. KW - craftsmanship KW - Maîtres d'oeuvre. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32772788 AB - Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts. ER -