Introduction
Craft at the limits
Craft as a process
Supplemental
Homage to Brancusi
Wearable sculptures: modern jewelry and the problem of autonomy
Reframing the pattern and decoration movement
Props: Gijs Bakker and Gord Peteran
Material
Ceramic presence: Peter Voulkos
Natural limitations: Stephen De Staebler and Ken Price
Crawling through mud: Yagi Kazuo
The materialization of the art object, 196672
Breath: Andrew Lord and Emma Wooffenden
Skilled
Circular thinking: David Pye and Michael Baxandall
Learning by doing
Thinking in situations: Josef Albers from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain
Charles Jencks and Kenneth Frampton: the ad hoc and the tectonic
Conclusion: skill and the human condition
Pastoral
Regions apart
Versions of pastoral: Phil Leider and Art Espenet Carpenter
North, south, east, west: Carl Andre and Robert Smithson
Landscapes
Amateur
The world's most fascinating hobby: Robert Arneson
Feminism and the politics of amateurism
Abject craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey Emin
Conclusion
Notes
Index.
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Thinking through craft by Glenn Adamson. ISBN 9781845206475. Published by Berg in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
