Journal of Modern Craft 2-3

Editorial Introduction

Articles

A Ghost in the Machine Age: The Westerwald Stoneware Industry and German Design Reform, 1900–1914 by Freyja Hartzell

A Catalan Werkstätte? Arts and Crafts Schools between Modernisme and Noucentisme by Jordi Falgàs

Early Expressions of Anthroposophical Design in America: The Infuence of Rudolf Steiner and Fritz Westhoff on Wharton Esherick by Roberta A. Mayer and Mark Sfrri

Primary Text Commentary

Design in Ireland: Report of the Scandinavian Design Group in Ireland, April 1861, by Paul Caffrey

Statement of Practice

Handspring Puppet Company by Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones and Tommy Luther (pdf)

Exhibition Reviews

Craft in its Gaseous State: Wouldn’t It Be Nice … Wishful Thinking in Art and Design by Mònica Gaspar

Quiet Persuasion: Political Craft by Geraldine Craig

Book Reviews

A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression reviewed by Sandra Alfoldy

Designing Modern Britain reviewed by Peter Hughes

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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