{"product_id":"thinking-through-craft-glenn-adamson-9781350092631","title":"Thinking Through Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003eCo-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDispensing with clich d 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Glenn Adamson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350092630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350092631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Glenn Adamson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995672576255,"sku":"9781350092631","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88549e12-a0bb-479e-8918-b4c6bca3ca6b.jpg?v=1683337159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-through-craft-glenn-adamson-9781350092631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}