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Craft Reader launch

Indefatigable Journal of Modern Craft editor Glenn Adamson has put together an important new anthology: The Craft Reader. If you’re in London, you are welcome to attend the launch:

Monday, March 29, from 6 to 8pm
Library of the Paul Mellon Centre in Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA

Copies of the book will be available for £20 (cheaper [...]

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Review of ‘The Object Of Labor: Art, Cloth & Cultural Production’

By Jasleen Dhamija
The Object of Labor is a publication, which brings out the very quintessential elements of creativity in a very wide sense, not only for those who create, but also those who use it creatively. My initial response to the publication was of dismay at the rather over-crowded cover, with a collage of unattractive [...]

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Review of ‘What’s the Use of Art: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context’

By Alison Carroll

What’s the Use of Art: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context ed: Jan Mrazek & Morgan Pitelka, University of Hawai’i Press, 2008

What’s the Use of Art is a collection of nine scholarly essays by Western experts, plus an introduction and conclusion by the [...]

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