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Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-151626

Description

304 p. : ill (some col.) ; 31 cm

Details

Descriptive Terms

Decorative arts History 20th century.
Decorative arts Foreign influences.
Decorative arts Technological innovations.

Originator

Kardon, Janet.
Bletter, Rosemarie Haag.
American Craft Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Contents

Craft in the machine age / Janet Kardon -- The promise and peril of high technology / Harvey Green -- The myths of modernism / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- Seeing through surfaces : American craft as material culture / Karen Lucic -- Charting a new educational vision / Marcia Yockey Manhart -- Against the grain : modern American woodwork / Kate Carmel -- The making of modern art glass / April Kingsley -- Modernism and American ceramics / Barbara Perry -- Textiles : surface, structure, and serial production / Mary Schoeser -- Striking the modern note in metal / Jewel Stern -- Resource list / Tara Leigh Tappert.

Publication

New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum

Publisher Series

The history of twentieth-century American craft

Description

304 p. : ill (some col.) ; 31 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-284) and index.
Rodris Roth Library (copy 2).

ISBN

0810919680

Call Number

Stacks NK808.C69 1995
Roth/Coll. NK808.C69 1995

Places

United States

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