Craft-History, Theory, Research 

READINGS & BIBLIOGRAPHY

Boris,  Eileen.  Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986).

Boris, Eileen. ‘Craft Shop or Sweatshop? The Uses and Abuses of Craftsmanship in Twentieth Century America’ Journal of Design History 2, 2-3 (1989): 175-192.

Boris, Eileen. ‘Crossing Boundaries: The Gendered Meaning of the Arts and Crafts,’ in Janet Kardon (ed.), The Ideal Home: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, 1900-1920 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993), 32-45.

Clancy, Jonathan. “Elbert Hubbard, Transcendentalism and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America” Journal of Modern Craft 2, 2 (July 2009): 143-160.

Crook, Tom. “Craft and the Dialogics of Modernity: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England.” The Journal of Modern Craft 2/1 (March 2009), 17-32.

Denker , Bert (ed). The Substance of Style: Perspectives on the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996).

Frank, Isabelle (ed) and David Britt (trans.). The Theory of Decorative Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

Helland,  Janice and B. Elliott (eds). Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The gender of ornament (Burlington: Ashgate, 2002).

Helland, Janice. British and Irish Home Arts and Industries 1880-1914: Marketing Craft, Making Fashion (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007).

Kaplan,  Wendy (ed).‘The Art that is Life’: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987).

Kaplan,  Wendy and Elizabeth Cumming. The Arts and Crafts Movement (London: Thames and Hudson, 1991).

Kaplan, Wendy (ed). The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004).

Larmour, Paul. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland (Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press, 1992).

Lauria, Jo and Fenton, Steve (eds). Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2007.

McLeod, Ellen Easton. In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999).

Morris, William. ‘How I became a Socialist’ in News from Nowhere.

Owen,  Nancy E. Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture and Commerce, 1880-1913 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001). 

Parry, Linda (ed). William Morris (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).

Pepall,  Rosalind. The Earthly Paradise: Arts and Crafts by William Morris and his Circle from Canadian Collections (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1993).

Sheehy, Jeanne. The Rediscovery of Ireland’s Past: The Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1980).

Thompson,  E.P. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (London: Merlin Press, 1977).

Williams, Raymond.  Culture and Society: Coleridge to Orwell (London: The Hogarth Press, 1993; 1st published 1958), Chapter 7: ‘Art and Society: A.W. Pugin, John Ruskin, William Morris,’ 130-160.

Adamson, Glenn. Thinking Through Craft (New York: Berg, 2007).

Alfoldy, Sandra (ed.) NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts (NSCAD University Press, 2007).

Alfoldy, Sandra. “Defining Professional Craft,” Artichoke (Summer 2004), 38-43.

Buckley, Cheryl . ‘Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design,’ in Victor Margolin (ed.), Design Discourse, History, Theory and Criticism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989), 251-262. 

Clark, Garth. “The Death of Crafts.” Crafts No. 216 (Jan/Feb 2009): 48-51.

Dormer, Peter (ed). The Culture of Craft: Status and Future (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).

Flood, Sandra. “Canadian Craft: Change and Continuity,” Alan Elder (ed) Transformations (Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1998), pgs 15 – 22.

Harrod, Tanya. The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999).

Hickey, Gloria (ed). Making and Metaphor: A Discussion of Meaning in Contemporary Craft (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994).

Johnson, Jean (ed). Exploring Contemporary Craft: History, Theory and Critical Writing (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2002).

Levine, Faythe. Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).

Metcalf, Bruce. “Replacing the Myth of Modernism” American Craft (February/March 1993): 40-47.

Owen , Paula and M. Anna Fariello (eds). Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft (Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2005).

Sparke, Penny. ‘The Architect’s Wife’ in As Long as it’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (London: Pandora, 1995), 1-12.

Trilling, James. The Language of Ornament (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001).