Thinking through craft [electronic resource] / Glenn Adamson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Also issued in print.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns