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Introduction to Issue 2.2

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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Journal of Modern Craft 2.2

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 [...]

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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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