CONTENTS Acknowledgements Note on the Texts Introduction SECTION 1: HOW-TO Section Introduction 1'Introductory Remarks', from The Teacher's 11 2 Elements of Handicraft and Design 3 The Wheelwright's Shop 4 On Weaving 5 Primitive Pottery SECTION 2: CRAFT AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Section Introduction 6 On the Economy of Machines and Manufactures 7 Artisans and Machinery 8 'How an Aristocracy May Emerge from Industry', from Democracy in America 9 Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers 10 Capital KarlMarx 11 'The Primary Effects of Scientific Management from Labor and Monopoly Capitalism 12 The Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain 13 Technological Innovation and Design Economics in Furniture Manufacture 14 Artistic America 15 In the Cause of Architecture: The Architect and the Machine 16 Art and the Machine 17 Building Materials 18 Handwerk/Kunsthandwerk SECTION 3: MODERN CRAFT: IDEALISM AND REFORM Section Introduction 19 The Nature of Gothic', from The Stones of Venice 20 The Revival of Handicraft 21 Art and Labor 22 Art and Workmanship 23 'Slogans', The Work Ahead of Us' and 'The Problem of the Relationship between Man and Object' 24 'The Way of Craftsmanship', from The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty 25 A Potter's Book 26 Initiation and the Crafts 27 Indian Handicrafts 28 'The Relation of the Past to the Demands of the Present', World Crafts Conference proceedings (1964) 29 Centering 30 Introduction to Craftsman Lifestyle: The Gentle Revolution 31 The Soul of a Tree 32 The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture SECTION 4: THE PERSISTENCE OF CRAFT IN THE AGE OF MASS PRODUCTION Section Introduction 33 Shoemaker of Dreams 34 Grafting Grand Cm Chocolates in Contemporary France 35 From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town 36 Destiny World: Textile Casualties in Southern Nigeria 37 On a Particular Kind of Love and the Specificity of Soviet Production 38 Original Copies 39 'What Is Cybernetics?', from 71) e Human Use of Humans 40 Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand 41'Digital Artisans Manifesto', European Digital Artisans Network 42 Craft versus Design: Moving Beyond a Tired Dichotomy SECTION 5: CRAFT IN THEORY: AESTHETICS, ESSENCE, STATUS Section Introduction 43 The Nature and Art of Workmanship 44 'The Genesis of the Technical Object: The Process of Concretization', from Du Mode 'Existence des Objets Techniques 45 'Forms in the Realms of Matter', from The Life of Forms in Art 46 Rhythm 47 The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power and Art in West Africa 48 African Art: Where the Hand Has Ears 49 Walter Benjamin: Traces of Craft 50 Functionalism Today 51 The Thing 52 Rappel a 1'Ordre: The Case for the Tectonic 53 'Art and Craft', from The Principles of An 54 Art and Work 55 'Comment' and Responses 56 Curatorial Comment from The Maker's Eye 57 How Envy Killed the Crafts Theodor Adorno 395 Martin Heidegger 404 Kenneth Frampton 409 R. G. Collingwood 417 HaroldRosenberg 424 John Bentley Mays 430 Alison Britton 441 Clark 445 SECTION 6: CRAFT IN ACTION: LIFE, ART, DESIGN Section Introduction 58 The Enchantment of Technology and the Technology of Enchantment 59 Making Something from Nothing (Toward a Definition of Women's 'Hobby Art') 60 'The Creation of Femininity', from The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine 61 There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s 62 House-Trained Objects: Notes Towards Writing an Alternative History of Modern Art 63 The New Ceramic Presence 64 How I Spent My Summer Vacation or, Art and Politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah 65 Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated 66 The Art of Encounter 67 Let the Artisans Craft Our Future 68 'Manifesto of the Bauhaus' and 'Education and the Bauhaus 69 Shaping America's Products 457 Alfred Cell 464 Lucy Lippard 483 Rozsika Parker 491 Carole Tulloch 501 Tanya Harrod 512 Rose Slivka 525 Philip Leider 534 Robert Morris 540 Lee Ufan 548 Gray son Perry 552 Walter Gropius 554 and Ldszlo Moholy-Nagy Don Wallance 559 Asilomar Conference Proceedings 1957 The New Handicrafts,' from Hot House Marguerite 569 Wildenhain and Charles Eames Andrea Branzi 577 SECTION 7: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES Section Introduction 2 Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture 3 'Craftsmen in the Factory of Images', from BoysCraft 4 And What Is Your Title? 5 Craft Hard, Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism in Unruly Contexts 6 The Politics of Craft: A Roundtable Recommended Bibliography List of Illustrations Index