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Glenn Adamson

Craft

An American History

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A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day.At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmit… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63557-458-6
  • EAN: 9781635574586
  • Produktnummer: 33342510
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm

Über den Autor


Glenn Adamson's books include Fewer, Better Things, The Invention of Craft, and The Craft Reader. His writings have also been published in museum catalogues and in Art in America, Antiques, frieze, and other periodicals. He was previously director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and has held appointments as Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and as Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.

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