The craftsman /

"The Craftsman leads Richard Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London. History has drawn fault lines dividing practice and theory, technique and expression, craft...

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Main Author: Sennett, Richard, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
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Summary:"The Craftsman leads Richard Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London. History has drawn fault lines dividing practice and theory, technique and expression, craftsman and artist, maker and user; modern society suffers from this historical inheritance. But the past life of craft and craftsmen also suggests ways of using tools, organizing work, and thinking about materials that remain alternative, viable proposals about how to conduct life with skill."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:326 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-315) and index.
ISBN:9780300119091 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0300119097 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780300151190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0300151195 (pbk. : alk. paper)