Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945 : the history of twentieth-century American craft / Janet Kardon, editor ; with essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter. . . [et al.].

Title: 
Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945 : the history of twentieth-century American craft / Janet Kardon, editor ; with essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter. . . [et al.].

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Publisher: 
New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the American Craft Museum, 1995.
Description: 
304 p. : ill (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Other Authors: 
Kardon, Janet.
Bletter, Rosemarie Haag.
American Craft Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Decorative arts United States History 20th century.
Decorative arts United States Foreign influences.
Decorative arts United States Technological innovations.
Glass - United States
Bib ID: 
45927
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
NK808.C88
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Notes: 
Published on the occasion of the exhibition by the same name held at the American Craft Museum, New York City, Oct. 18, 1995-Feb. 25, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-284) and index.
Reviewed by Tanya Harrod in Crafts (U.K.), no. 138, Jan./Feb. 1996, pp. 58-59.
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.
ISBN: 
0810919680

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 69.4.255, p. 1 -- 59.4.162, p. 5 -- 52.4.324, p. 14 -- 59.4.150, p. 15 -- 78.4.38, p. 92 -- 72.4.222, p. 95 (bottom) -- 92.4.121, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121A, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121B, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121C, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121D, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121E, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121F, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121G, p. 162 (bottom) -- 92.4.121H, p. 162 (bottom) -- 89.4.30, p. 164 (bottom) -- 89.4.34, p. 165 -- 85.4.83 A-6, p. 166 (bottom) -- 85.4.83 B-4, p. 166 (bottom).