Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a book about the ways things get made. Today the word ‘craft’ is linked to a vast array of items from handmade objects to microbreweries. But this also suggests 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 how that shapes 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. Shales’s discussion ranges widely across people and objects: from potter Karen Karnes to weaver Jack Lenor Larsen 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. (SP)