Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
Vol 12 no 2, 1992
A special issue which in arguing the old art/ craft debate is proposing usable theories for practice. What is the future for craft? Re-evaluating 'women's work', craft, science and technology. Reviews
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Toward a Typology of Small Objects
Author & Artist: Mr Robert Nelson, featureWith increasing anxiety, we face searching questions of the viability, the integrity, the destiny of craft. In themselves, the questions are salutory and point to an intellectual vitality in craft culture, a vigour and toughness which have not existed since the Arts and Crafts Movement. Responses to the challenge vary from relish in the contradictions of craft practice to the old-fashioned despair for any debate whatsoever.
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Articles in this issue
- Book review: The Crafts Come of Age
- Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Gray Street Workshop
- Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Ipso Factory Company
- Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fingers
- Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fluxus
- Feature: After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s
- Feature: Craft, Science and the Natural: An Introduction
- Feature: Design Visions: International Exchange: Time for a Stocktake
- Feature: Distant Lives/ Shared Voices
- Feature: From Italowie to Chambers Gorge - A New Tapestry
- Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
- Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
- Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
- Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
- Feature: Jill Smith: Artist/ Designer in Industry
- Feature: Making a Living: The Jam Factory
- Feature: Marketing from the Top End
- Feature: NSW Tafe: A Different Approach to Ceramics
- Feature: Parables of Criticism
- Feature: Screenprinting the Tiwi Way: An Element of Spontaneity
- Feature: Semiotically Speaking: A Craftperson's View
- Feature: The Archaeological Metaphor: A Personal Excavation
- Feature: The Floating Web
- Feature: The Hermannsburg Potters
- Feature: The Problem of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Glass
- Feature: The Reflections of a Taxidermist
- Feature: The Watch, the Pen and the Biro
- Feature: The Western Way - Linney's, Argenta and Others
- Feature: Tim Burns - Paintings and Drawings
- Feature: Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
- Feature: Toward a Typology of Small Objects
- Feature: Two Countries, One Weave?
- Feature: Why Craftwork Does Not Compute
- Feature: Yurundiali - Reasons for Optimism
- Review: ...But Never by Chance..., Skin and From Women
- Review: Anne Newmarch - Superimpositions
- Review: Contemporary Gipsland Artists
- Review: Hossein Valamanesh Recent Work
- Review: Tasdance in Silk
