| Description |
1 online resource (460 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Note |
Collection of the author's essays and magazine articles published between 1981-2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-445) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. On the crafts: Storytelling in American craft, 1750-1950. The embodiment of ingenuity. Pacific Northwest crafts in the 1950s. Breaking barriers: recent American craft. The rematerialization of the art object. The myth of the neglected ceramic artist -- pt. 2. Ceramics: Toward a bicameral esthetic of clay. Robert Sperry: planetary clay. American figurative ceramics. Shattered self: Northwest figurative ceramics. Howard Kottler. Pattern re-examined in American ceramics. Richard Fairbanks: Turning point. Jim Leedy: Prehistoric modern. Rick Dillingham and the reparative drive. Michael Lucero discoovers America. Viola Frey's family plot. Doug Jeck: monuments to uncertainty. Ryoji Koie: new contexts. Lawson Oyekan: origin and exile. Picasso's ceramics: a lifelong interest. North American ceramic sculpture now -- pt. 3. Glass: American studio glass since 1945: from Cold War to hot shop -- Glass as element: five artists -- Buster Simpson: throwaway glass -- Toots Zynsky: the climate of color -- William Morris: paleoglass -- Therman Statom: installing space -- Containing space: Ginny Ruffner's installations -- Metamorphosis: glass sculptures by Lynda Benglis -- Daniel Clayman: the object is image -- Glass in public art today: preservation, renovation, innovation -- Paul Marioni: the visitor -- Robert Kehlmann: aspects of meaning -- Marvin Lipofsky: concealing the void -- Femcluster: a new paradigm -- Robert Willson: image-maker -- Bertil Vallien: somna vakna -- Vision quest: Native American glass -- Benjamin Moore: the translator. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete |
| Subject |
Handicraft -- 20th century.
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Decorative arts -- 20th century.
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Glass art -- 20th century.
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Glass artists -- 20th century.
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Decorative arts. (OCoLC)fst00889315
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Glass art. (OCoLC)fst00943068
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Glass artists. (OCoLC)fst00943076
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Handicraft. (OCoLC)fst00950959
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kangas, Matthew. Craft and concept. New York : Midmarch Arts Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006921487 (OCoLC)70123025 |
| ISBN |
1877675563 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781877675560 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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187767558X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781877675584 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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