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Title:Craft Perception & Practice : A Canadian Discourse
Author:Paula Gustafson
ISBN:0921870949 : 9780921870944
Illustrations:37 colour photos
Format:Paperback
Size:190x255mm
Pages:218
Weight: .742 Kg.
Published:Ronsdale Press - April 2004
List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Decorative arts & crafts: Canada


Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers and other craft artists are recognised amongst the world's finest artisans. The inaugural edition of a three-volume series, Craft Perception and Practice celebrates the excellence of Canadian crafts by bringing together 24 essays and critical commentaries by 16 independent critics and curators, professional artists, art historians and studio instructors. Highly readable texts by internationally published authors Glenn Allison, Amy Gogarty, Paula Gustafson, Paul Mathieu, Gil McElroy and Anne McPherson -- as well as by noted Canadian painter Mary Pratt -- discuss the conceptual, social, and cultural significance of craft media. The essays engage linguistic and feminist theories, and consider aspects of tactile, sensual and tacit knowledge in the context of works by a distinguished group of Canadian craft artists that includes Prix Saidye Bronfman Award winners Steven Heinemann and Leopold L Foulem.