Thursday, 14 March 2013

The Persistence of Craft


Greenhaig, p., (ED) (2002) The Persistence of Craft, London: A&C Black LTD.

1 Classification , 2 Economy,  3 Amatteuridm,   4 Techology,   5 Morality,   6 Ethnicity,   7 Place,          8 Domesticity,   9 Museolohy,   10 Gender,   11 History,   12 Modernity,   13 Quality.

Page 7
A key element of the idea of modern craft lies in these observations.  In an affirmation of process over product, amateur craft is to do with the need to physically engage with things ....it is not the same thing as the obsessive. Intense search that is central to the professional sphere.  The former is to do with the injection of the subjective self into objective phenomena the latter is to do with the objectification of the subjective.

Page 13
Works of art are not objects, works of art are relationships between people and oblects,.  If the relationship does not exist, neither does the work of art.
Art is primarily an ides. Remove the ides and only  social class and economics remain.

Page 20
The actual making of beautiful objects is only one aspect of the success or failure of a genre.

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