Second Issue of 2009
Editorial introduction
Articles
Style, Skill and Modernity in the Zisha Pottery of China by Geoffrey Gowlland
Elbert Hubbard, Transcendentalism and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America by Jonathan Clancy
Hungarian Pottery, Politics and Identity: Re-presenting the Ceramic Art of Margit Kovacs by Juliet Kinchin
‘Acts of Association: Allison Smith’s Craft as Civic Practice’ (pdf) by Jennifer Geigel Mikulay
Looking is a Way of Touching by Gabriela Gusmao
Commentary by Mireia Freixa and Anna Calvera
Reviews
Application of the Arts to Industry by Salvador Sanpere i Miquel
Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright by Baird Jarman
Jean Nouvel Cesar, Anthology by Patricia Ribault
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan by Susan Cahill
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Alicia Volk
Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in Change by Henrietta Lidchi
The first issue of 2009.
Editorial Introduction.
Response
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend: How Great Art Gets Lost by Bernard L. Herman
Articles
Craft and the Dialogics of Modernity: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England by Tom Crook
Support/Surface or Sculpture/Craft: Considering Barbara Hepworth and Bernard Leach by Penelope Curtis
“Traditional—with Contemporary Form”: Craft and Discourses of Modernity in Slovakia Today by Nicolette Makovicky
Queerly Made: Harmony Hammond’s Floorpieces by Julia Bryan-Wilson
Primary Text
The Designer, the Craftsman and the Manufacturer by David Queensberry
Statement of Practice
The Fiction of Form by Alison Britton
Exhibition
Reviews
Des Wahnsinns fette Beute—Schmuck an der Akademie der Bildende Künste München: Die Klasse Künzli By Liesbeth den Besten
M. Lee Fatherree’s Photography: Evidence of the Artist at Work by Meredith Tromble
Book Reviews
Foreign Bodies by James R. Beighton
Thinking through Craft by Love Jönsson
The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry by Morgan Pitelka
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The final issue for 2008
Editorial introduction
Articles
Cleverest of the Clever: Coconut Craftsmen in Lamu, Kenya by Kristina Dziedzic Wright
Disavowing Craft at the Bauhaus: Hiding the Hand to Suggest Machine Manufacture by George H. Marcus
Russel Wright and Japan: Bridging Japonisme and Good Design through Craft by Yuko Kikuchi
British Interventions in the Traditional Crafts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), c. 1850-1930 by Robin Jones
Statement of Practice
Introduction: Ena de Silva and the Aluwihare Workshops by David G. Robson
Primary Text
Commentary by Alla Myzelev
My Life Impressions Princess Maria Tenisheva (1867-1928)
Exhibition Reviews
Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object by Christopher Wilk
Hands on Movement: A Dialogue with History by Christina Zetterlund
Book Review
What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images by Justin Clemens
The Craftsman by Emmanuel Cooper
The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade by Joshua A. Shannon
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