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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: shape of craft
  name:
    name part: Shales, Ezra
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Today, the word 'craft' is linked to a vast array of items from handmade objects to microbreweries. 'Artisanal' is so overused that it can strain our credulity. But this also reveals that the value of craft remains compelling in modern life. In this cogently argued book, Ezra Shales explores some of the key questions about craft, who makes it, what we mean when we think about a craft object and what that means to our understanding of what craft is. Along the way, he continually upends our definitions and typical expectations of what we think is handcrafted or authentic. His discussion ranges widely across people and objects, from potter Karen Karnes to weaver Jack Lenor Larsen and glass sculptor Dale Chihuly to Native American basket maker Julia Parker as well as younger makers such as Sopheap Pich and Maarten Baas and to the porcelain and cast-iron sanitary ware produced by the Kohler Company, the pottery made in Stoke on Trent and the people in Asia today who weave beautiful things for IKEA. Engaging, pertinent and direct, the book ultimately encourages us to feel the shape of craft in our own lives.
  table of contents: Archetypes: who is a craftsman? -- Today's craftspeople in an expanded field -- Organic or industrial? Weaving cane and welding steel -- Weaving as a magic carpet ride -- Time in glasscraft -- Conclusion: mnemosynthesis.
  note: Ezra Shales.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Handicraft
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Artisans
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Industrial arts
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Workmanship
    topic: History
  classification: TT157 .S53 2017
  classification: 745
  identifier: 9781780238227
  identifier: 1780238223
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 170215
    record change date: 20180501142545.0
    record identifier: in00003961523