After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s

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Kylie Neagle

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Alasdair Foster

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Most writers and researchers in the visual arts and crafts would now consider the debate about the difference between art and craft to be an old chestnut whose day has well and truly gone. Refers to the debates between David Bromfield and Anne Brennan.

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