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Corporate Author Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Title Crafting a legacy : contemporary American crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Suzanne Ramljak with an introduction by Darrel Sewell.

Imprint Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art, ©2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  745.5 P53c 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 191 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ceramics : Robert Arneson, Bennett Bean, William Daley, Richard DeVore, Ruth Duckworth, Viola Frey, David Gilhooly, Wayne Higby, Jun Kaneko, Michael Lucero, Ron Nagle, Gertrude and Otto Natzler, William Perry, Kenneth Price, Richard Shaw, Paul Soldner, Rudolf Staffel, Toshiko Takaezu, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Robert Winokur, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman -- Fiber : Sheila Hicks, Lewis Knauss, Richard Landis, John McQueen, Michael Olszekewski, Ed Rossbach, Cynthia Schira, Joyce Scott, Thomas Stearns, Lenore Tawney, Evelyn Svec Ward, Claire Zeisler -- Furniture : Wendell Castle, John Cederquist, Wharton Esherick, James Krenov, Sam Maloof, Wendy Maruyama, Judy Kensley McKie, George Nakashima -- Glass : Howard Ben Tre, Dale Chihuly, Dominick Labino, Harvey Littleton, Richard Marquis, Tom Patti, Judith Schaechter, Toots Zynsky (Mary Ann Zynsky) -- Metal : Chunghi Choo, William Harper, Stanley Lechtzin, Albert Paley, Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Olaf Skoogfors -- Wood : David Ellsworth, Gyongy Laky, Mark Lindquist, Edward Moulthrop, James Prestini, Robert Stocksdale.
Summary "Published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Crafting a Legacy showcases the Museum's burgeoning collection of contemporary American crafts. More than one hundred color plates illustrate many of the Museum's prime holdings in ceramics, wood, fiber, glass, metal, and furniture. Entries on sixty-four featured artists, including Dale Chihuly, Wharton Esherick, Sheila Hicks, and Peter Voulkos, place their work in the context of the dynamic field of American crafts. Suzanne Ramljak reveals the valuable role that crafts play in contemporary culture and artistic practice. In a world of bland, mass-produced consumer goods and technologically mediated virtual experience, Ramljak argues that crafts - one-of-a-kind handmade objects - can reawaken our senses. In his introduction, Darrel Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Curator of American Art, outlines the history of the crafts collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as the vital role Philadelphia has played as a center for innovation in contemporary crafts. The book also includes an illustrated checklist of the Museum's more than three hundred holdings in contemporary crafts."--Jacket.
Subject Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Catalogs.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. (OCoLC)fst00529392
Decorative arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
Decorative arts. (OCoLC)fst00889315
Handicraft. (OCoLC)fst00950959
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Catalogs.
Added Author Ramljak, Suzanne.
ISBN 0876331614 (cloth)
9780876331613 (cloth)
0876331622 (paper)
9780876331620 (paper)
0813532035
9780813532035

 
    
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