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Introduction to Issue 2.3

By Editor | Published: January 6, 2010

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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Revivalist or renegade?

By Editor | Published: September 6, 2009

Craft in the 21st century has become a forum for activist causes such as feminism, democracy, land reform and the gift economy. There are strong parallels here with the origins of the Arts and Crafts Movement as a revival of traditions lost through industrialisation. So what’s new?
Craft activism today seems to provide a democratic forum [...]

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Introduction to Issue 2.2

By Editor | Published: August 23, 2009

Editorial Introduction
We have not had themed issues as yet in Journal of Modern Craft, and this latest edition was certainly not planned under the rubric ‘politics’. Serendipitously, however, much of its content addresses craft’s fortunes under various political structures. Under the conditions of industrialism craft finds it hard to make a niche for itself – [...]

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