CONTENT
Notes on contributors page vii
General editor's foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
INTRODUCTION 1
1 The salon de refuse? PETER DORMER 2
THE STATUS OF CRAFT 17
2 The history of craft PAUL GREENHALGH 20
3 How strange the change from major to minor: hierarchies
and medieval art T. A. HESLOP 53
4 Craft and art, culture and biology BRUCE METCALF 67
5 Craft within a consuming society GLORIA MICKEY 83
THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY , 101
6 The progress of Captain Ludd PAUL GREENHALGH 104
7 Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial
design HELEN REES 116
8 Craft and the Turing Test for practical thinking
PETER DORMER 137
9 CADCAM and the British ceramics tableware industry
NEAL FRENCH 158
10 Textiles and technology PETER DORMER 168
11 Tornadoes, T-squares and technology: can computing be
a craft? JEREMY MYERSON 176
WRITING ABOUT THE CRAFTS 187
12 Writing about the studio crafts ROSEMARY HILL 190
13 Writing about objects we don't understand
JONATHAN MEULI 202
14 The language and practical philosophy of craft
PETER DORMER 219
Index 231