The Arts & Craft connection
Almost two years ago now, the Journal of Modern Craft’s first editorial argued for a broad framing of our subject, one that would go beyond the studio crafts and their discrete disciplines, as well as the tendency to place craft in a series of continuous dialectics with modernity, industrialization, commerce, and [...]
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- African pottery in South Africa: Life after the village by Steven Smith
- African Craft: the Ghetto of the Village, the Penthouse of the Studio by Pamela Allara
- Hlengiwe Dube – African craft aspiring to gallery status
- Spirit in a spear blade – Mande Blacksmiths
- The place of African craft: studio or village?
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The Journal of Modern Craft offers academic perspectives on all aspects of craft within the condition of modernity, from the mid-19th century to the present day, without geographical or disciplinary boundary. The journal is published 3 times a year by Berg Publishers
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- Steven Smith: Thank you Kevin for your comment. Contemporary African ceramics (in South Africa) is certainly a hybrid...
- Editor: Stephen, thanks for an important article about the development of modern South African ceramics. Like most...
- Glenn Adamson: Thank you for this wonderful post Pamela – it resonates very well with the contents of the issue...
- Dr Lycia Trouton: From The Academe: in regards to what Editor Dr. Kevin Murray asks above, referring to...
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