Holly Hanessian H. Hanessian Top Picks
Ceramics in Critical Context - Jo Dahn (ON CRITIQUE)
Ceramics: The Medium and Its Discontents," Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community (Univ of Chicago Press, 2016) Jenni Sorkin (GOOD INTRO)
The "Centering" from Glenn Adamson’s The Craft Reader
New Ceramic Presence, Rose Silvka (HISTORY)
How Envy Killed the Crafts - Garth Clark Parts 1&2 CERAMIC CULTURE
The Way of Craftsmanship - Soetsu Yanagi HISTORY
Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft PERFORMANCE
Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand Post-Disciplinarity DIGITAL


GENERAL LIST:
Fundamentals: Craft Versus Design:
Moving Beyond a Tired Dichotomy AND The Invention of Craft - Glenn Adamson
When Craft Gets Sloppy - Glenn Adamson
The Nature and Art of Workmanship - David Pye Walter Benjamin:
Traces of Craft - Esther Leslie
The Thing - Martin Heidegger
Art and Craft
From the Principles of Art - R.G. Collingwood
Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position - Louise Mazanti
Gatherings: Creating the Studio Craft Movement - Glenn Adamson (Crafting Modernism) The invention of craft Handwerk/Kunsthandwerk - Stefan Muthesius William Morris
The Revival of Handicraft Art and Labor - Ellen Gates Starr
The Way of Craftsmanship - Soetsu Yanagi
Finding One’s Way with Clay, Paulus Berensohn
Ornament and Crime - Adolf Loos
Functionalism Today - Theodor Adorno
A Hackerspace of One’s Own - Garth Johnson
How Envy Killed the Crafts - Garth Clark Parts 1 & 2
The Subversive Stitch - Rozsika Parker
A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook - James Krenov
Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew Crawford
Live Form (Intro) - Jenni Sorkin
The Bauhaus On Weaving - Anni Albers
Manifesto of the Bauhaus and Education and the Bauhaus - Gropius and Moholy-Nagy Craft and Identity Making Something from Nothing - Lucy Lippard
The Creation of Femininity - Rozsika Parker
Put Your Thing Down, Flip it and Reverse it - L.J. Roberts
House Trained Objects - Tanya Harrod Boyscraft - Tami Katz-Frieberg
The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary - Maria Buszek
The Politics of Craft: A Roundtable “Male Trouble”; Sewing, amateurism and gender - Joseph McBrinn From Maria Martinez to Kent Monkman - Elizabeth Kalbfleisch
Craft Horizons: The Relation of the Past to the Demands of the Present - WCC 1964 From Design for Production to Off-Loom Sculpture - Elisa Auther
Feminist Politicization of the Art Craft Divide, Elisa Auther
String, Felt, Thread - Elisa Auther
(Crafting Modernism) Art and Work - Harold Rosenberg
The New Ceramic Presence - Rose Slivka
Asilomar Conference Proceedings - Wildenhain and Eames
Development of the Critical Objects of Studio Craft - Howard Risatti
An “Exploding Craft Market” 1945-1969 - Caroline Hannah
Crafting Modernism, Sequoia Miller
Craftivism Craftivist History - Betsy Greer Interview with Gabriel Craig
Global Craft In Praise of Hands - Octavio Paz
Original Copies - Philip Tinari
African Art: Where the Hand has Ears

The Art of Encounter - Lee Ufan

Craft/Philosophy Centering - M.C. Richards

The Craftsman - Richard Sennet

Rhythm - Elsie Fogerty

Re-Thinking Dichotomies: Crafts and The Digital from NeoCraft Anthology (NSCAD Press, 2007) Love Jonsson

Evocative Objects, Sherry Turkle (Introduction)


Digital Craft

Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand Post-Disciplinarity

Why is sloppy and post-disciplinary craft significant and what are… - Gloria Hickey Affectivity and Entropy - Johanna Drucker

Craft Hard, Die Free - Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch

Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft

A Space Program - Tom Sachs

The Digital Future, Holly Hanessian, The Ceramics Reader, Bloomsbury, 2017 DIGITAL

Found Objects and Readymades - Jorunn Veiteberg (from Thing Tang Trash)

Doomed to Failure - Sandra Alfoldy

From Readymade to Manufractured: Some Assembly Required - Steven Skov Holt Object Theory Language - Deyan Sudjic

The Object and Eternity - Anne Britt Ylvisaker (from Thing Tang Trash)

Ceramics in Critical Context - Jo Dahn



Other: (Podcast, websites, etc.)

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Glen Adamson, When Craft Gets Sloppy, Crafts no.211 (this podcast from discussion between Anne Wilson, Josh Faught, Namita, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins is an interesting pairing with the short article: http://mocc.pnca.edu/exhibitions/programs)


Object Focus: The Bowl

We claim the bowl in the name of craft.

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