Bibliograph

Craft, an American history, Glenn Adamson

Type

Label

Craft, an American history, Glenn Adamson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesillustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Craft

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1155486972

resource.references

Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (February 5, 2021), http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx

Responsibility statement

Glenn Adamson

Sub title

an American history

Summary

Examine any phase of our nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there: from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor might confer hard-won agency under bondage, or the Native American makers who adapted traditional arts into statements of modernity. He argues that these artisans' stories speak to our collective striving toward a more perfect union. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

The artisan republic -- A self-made nation -- Learn trades or die -- A more perfect union -- Americana -- Making war -- Declarations of independence -- Cut and paste -- Can craft save America?

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