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Title:Craft Perception & Practice : A Canadian Discourse, Volume 3
Series:(Craft Perception & Practice Series)
Author:Paula Gustafson, Nisse Gustafson & Amy Gogarty (eds)
ISBN:1553800524 : 9781553800521
Illustrations:40+ colour photos
Format:Paperback
Size:190x255mm
Pages:213
Weight: .746 Kg.
Published:Ronsdale Press - October 2007
List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:HISTORY OF ART/ART & DESIGN STYLES: Canada


This volume features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as presented in symposiums, exhibition catalogues and art journals. Over 40 full-colour photographs of works in craft media including fibre, ceramics, metal, wood and 'new materials' accompany the essays. The texts in this volume explore the conceptual, social and cultural significance of craft practice today, and describe new initiatives in conceptualising craft practices in contemporary life. Essays by prominent academics and theorists such as Sandra Alfoldy, Paul Mathieu, Arlene Oak, and Kirsty Robertson discuss craft in terms of political and social activism, gender theory, semiotics and aesthetics, analysing shifting boundaries between craft, fine art and design. Artists Mackenzie Frere, Murray Gibson and Ruth Scheuing discuss their own work, providing insight into the relationship between skill, technology, history and personal expression. The diversity of contemporary craft practice is well-represented in essays by Mireille Perron, Shannon Stratton, Glenn Allison and others, whose thoughtful analyses raise challenging questions about craft practice today. This volume substantiates academic advancement of craft curricula and provides an authoritative springboard for debate and discussion among craft practitioners, educators, curators and collectors.

Craft and the Semiotics of Pattern: A Feminist Perspective; Lisa Samphire: Bending the Bullseye; Ancient Affections: Paul Mathieu's Making China in China; Flowers and Leaves: Constructing Nature; Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft & Free Time; The Art of Camouflage, A Female Touch: Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney; Stardale: A Success Story; Thinking Textile; How to Knit an Academic Paper; Rules of Grammar or Childish Babble?: Interpreting Ornament and Meaning in the Context of Modernity; Immaterial beauty; But is it (ceramic) Art? Ceramics and the "Problem" with Jean-Pierre Larocque's Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art; Louise Perrone's Museum; Sara Washbush: The Parting Glass; Vancouver Sculpture: Craft Concepts; John Macnab: Between Centres; Sarah Link's Drift; Christina Mayr: Focus on the Vessel; How Long is a Piece of String?