The Craft Reader

Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Texts
Introduction
SECTION 1: HOW-TO
	Section Introduction
	1. ‘Introductory Remarks’, from The Teachers Handbook of Slöjd • Otto Salomon
	2. Elements of Handicraft and Design • W. A. S. Benson
	3. The Wheelwright’s Shop • George Sturt
	4. On Weaving • Anni Albers
	5. Primitive Pottery • Hal Riegger
SECTION 2: CRAFT AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
	Section Introduction
	6. On the Economy of Machines and Manufactures • Charles Babbage
	7. Artisans and Machinery • Peter Gaskell
	8. ‘How an Arisrocracy May Emerge from Industry’, from Democracy in America • Alexis de Tocqueville
	9. Industrial Biography: Iron Workersand Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
	10. Capital • Karl Marx
	11. ‘The Primary Effects of Scientific Management’, from Labor and Monopoly Capitalism • Harry Braverman
	12. The Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain • Raphael Samuel
	13. Technological Innovation and Design Economics in Furniture Manufacture • Michael Ettema
	14. Artistic America • Siegfried Bing
	15. In the Cause of Architecture: The Architectand the Machine • Frank Lloyd Wright
	16. Art and the Machine • Hermann Muthesius
	17. Building Materials • Adolf Loos
	18. Handwerk/Kunsthandwerk • Stefan Muthesius
SECTION 3: MODERN CRAFT: IDEALISM AND REFORM
	Section Introduction
	19. ‘The Nature of Gothic’, fromThe Stones of Venice • John Ruskin
	20. The Revival of Handicraft  • William Morris
	21. Art and Labor • Ellen Gates Starr
	22. Art and Workmanship • W. R. Lethaby
	23. ‘Slogans’, ‘The Work Ahead of Us’ and ‘The Problem of the Relationship between Man and Object’ • Vladimir Tatlin
	24. ‘The Way of Craftsmanship’, from The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty • Sôetsu Yanagi
	25. A Potter’s Book • Bernard Leach
	26. Initiation and the Crafts • René Guénon
	27. Indian Handicrafts • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
	28. ‘The Relation of the Past to the Demands of the Present’, World Crafts Conference proceedings (1964)
	29. Centering • M. C. Richards
	30. Introduction to Craftsman Lifestyle: The Gentle Revolution • Eudorah Moore
	31. The Soul of a Tree • George Nakashima
	32. The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture • Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
SECTION 4: THE PERSISTENCE OF CRAFT IN THE AGE OF MASS PRODUCTION
	Section Introduction
	33. Shoemaker of Dreams Salvatore • Ferragamo
	34. Crafting Grand Cru Chocolates in Contemporary France • Susan J. Terrio
	35. From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town • Sara Berry
	36. Destiny World: Textile Casualties in Southern Nigeria • David T. Doris
	37. On a Particular Kind of Love and the Specificity of Soviet Production • Sergei Alasheev
	38. Original Copies • Philip Tinari
	39. ‘What Is Cybernetics?’, from The Human Use of Humans • Norbert Wiener
	40. Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand • Malcolm McCullough
	41. ‘Digital Artisans Manifesto’, European Digital Artisans Network • Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz
	42. Craft versus Design: Moving Beyond a Tired Dichotomy • Rafael Cardoso
SECTION 5: CRAFT IN THEORY: AESTHETICS, ESSENCE, STATUS
	Section Introduction
	43. The Nature and Art of Workmanship • David Pye
	44. ‘The Genesis of the Technical Object: The Process of Concretization’, from Du Mode D’Existence des Objets Techniques • Gilbert Simondon
	45. ‘Forms in the Realms of Matter’, from The Life of Forms in Art • Henri Focillon
	46. Rhythm • Elsie Fogerty
	47. The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power and Art in West Africa • Patrick R. McNaughton
	48. African Art: Where the Hand Has Ears Amadou • Hâmpaté Bâ
	49. Walter Benjamin: Traces of Craft • Esther Leslie
	50. Functionalism Today • Theodor Adorno
	51. The Thing • Martin Heidegger
	52. Rappel a l’Ordre: The Case for the Tectonic • Kenneth Frampton
	53. ‘Art and Craft’, from The Principles of Art • R. G. Collingwood
	54. Art and Work • Harold Rosenberg
	55. ‘Comment’ and Responses • John Bentley Mays
	56. Curatorial Comment from The Makers Eye • Alison Britton
	57. How Envy Killed the Crafts • Garth Clark
SECTION 6: CRAFT IN ACTION: LIFE, ART, DESIGN
	Section Introduction
	58. The Enchantment of Technology and the Technology of Enchantment • Alfred Gell
	59. Making Something from Nothing (Toward a Definition of Women’s ‘Hobby Art’) • Lucy Lippard
	60. ‘The Creation of Femininity, from The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine • Rozsika Parker
	61. There’s No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s • Carole Tulloch
	62. House-Trained Objects: Notes Towards Writing an Alternative History of Modern Art • Tanya Harrod
	63. The New Ceramic Presence • Rose Slivka
	64. How I Spent My Summer Vacation or, Art and Politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah • Philip Leider
	65. Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated • Robert Morris
	66. The Art of Encounter • Lee Ufan
	67. Let the Artisans Craft Our Future • Grayson Perry
	68. ‘Manifesto of the Bauhaus and ‘Education and the Bauhaus’ • Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
	69. Shaping America’s Products • Don Wallance
	70. Asilomar Conference Proceedings 1957 • Marguerite Wildenhain and Charles Eames
	71. ‘The New Handicrafts’, from Hot House • Andrea Branzi
SECTION 7: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES
	Section Introduction
	72. Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture • Johanna Drucke
	73. ‘Craftsmen in the Factory of Images, from BoysCraft • Tami Katz-Freiman
	74. And What Is Your Title? • Zandra Ahi
	75. Craft Hard, Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism in Unruly Contexts • Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch
	76. The Politics of Craft: A Roundtable • Julia Bryan-Wilson, Liz Collins, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Cat Mazza and Allison Smith
Recommended Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index