The Craft Reader (Hardcover)

PART 1: HOW TO
Sectional introduction
1. Otto Salomon, The Teacher's Handbook of Slojd
2. W. A. S. Benson, Elements of Handicraft and Design
3. George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop
4. Anni Albers, On Weaving
5. Eliot Wigginton, "Building a Log Cabin"
6. Debbie Stoller, Stitch'n'Bitch: the Knitter's Handbook

PART 2: CRAFT AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Sectional introduction
7. Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machines and Manufactures
8. Peter Gaskell, Artisans and Machinery
9. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
10. Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
11. Karl Marx, Capital
12. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
13. Raphael Samuel, "The Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain"
14. Michael Ettema, "Technological Innovation and Design Economics in Furniture Manufacture"
15. Siegfried Bing, Artistic America
16. Frank Lloyd Wright, Collected Writings
17. Hermann Muthesius, "Art and the Machine"
18. Adolf Loos, "Building Materials," Neue Freie Presse (Aug. 28, 1898), reprinted in Loos, Speaking Into the Void: Collected Essays 1897-1900 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982)
19. Stefan Muthesius, "Handwerk/Kunsthandwerk"

PART 3: MODERN CRAFT: IDEALISM AND REFORM
Sectional Introduction
20. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
21. William Morris, "The Revival of Handicraft"
22. W. R. Lethaby, Form in Civilization: Collected Papers on Art and Labour
23. Ellen Gates Starr, "Art and Labor"
24. Vladimir Tatlin, "The Work Ahead of Us", "The Artist as an Organizer of Everyday Life" and "The Problem of the Relationship Between Man and Object"
25. Soetsu Yanagi, "The Way of Craftsmanship"
26. Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book
27. Ananda Coomawaraswamy, "Religious Ideas in Craftsmanship"
28. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian Handicrafts
29. Rene Guenon, "Initiation and the Crafts"
30. Octavio Paz, In Praise of Hands: Contemporary Crafts of the World
31. M. C. Richards, Centering
32. Olivia Emery, Craftsman Lifestyle: The Gentle Revolution
33. George Nakashima, The Soul of A Tree: A Master Woodworker's Reflections
34. Edward S. Cooke, Jr., "The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture"

PART 4: THE PRESENCE OF CRAFT IN THE AGE OF MASS PRODUCTION
Sectional introduction
35. Salvatore Ferragamo, The Shoemaker of Dreams
36. Susan J. Terrio, "Crafting Grand Cru Chocolates in Contemporary France"
37. Sara Berry, "From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in a Nigerian Town"
38. Nathan Silver, "Modes and Resources of Adhocism"
39. David T. Doris, "Destiny World: Textile Casualties in Southern Nigeria"
40. Sergei Alasheev, "On a Particular Kind of Love and the Specificity of Soviet Production"
41. Iftikhar Dadi, "Plastic Toys and Urban Craft in South Asia"
42. Philip Tinari, "Original Copies"
43. Norbert Wiener, "What is Cybernetics?"
44. Michael L. Dertouzos, "Individualized Automation"
45. Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand
46. European Digital Artists Network (Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz), "Digital Artisans Manifesto"
47. Rafael Cardoso, "Craft Versus Design: Moving Beyond a Tired Dichotomy."

PART 5: CRAFT IN THEORY: WORKMANSHIP, ESSENCE, STATUS
Sectional Introduction
48. David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship
49. Henri Focillon, "Forms in the Realms of Matter"
50. Elsie Fogerty, Rhythm
51. Amadou Hampate Ba, "African Art: Where the Hand Has Ears"
52. Robert Farris Thompson, "Yoruba Artistic Criticism"
53. Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"
54. Kenneth Frampton, "Rappel a l'Ordre: The Case for the Tectonic"
55. Esther Leslie, "Walter Benjamin: Traces of Craft"
56. Theodor Adorno, "Functionalism Today
57. R. G. Collingwood, "Art and Craft"
58. Patrick Heron, "The Crafts in Relation to Contemporary Art"
59. Harold Rosenberg, "Art and Work"
60. John Bentley Mays, "Comment"
61. Alison Britton, The Maker's Eye

PART 6: CRAFT IN ACTION: THE EVERYDAY, ART AND DESIGN
Sectional introduction
62. Alfred Gell, "The Enchantment of Technology and the Technology of Enchantment"
63. Patrick R. McNaughton, The Mande Blacksmiths
64. Roland Barthes, "Toys"
65. Lucy Lippard, "Making Something From Nothing (toward a Definition of Women's 'Hobby Art')"
66. Rozsika Parker, "The Creation of Femininity"
67. Carole Tulloch, "There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s"
68. Tanya Harrod, "House-Trained Objects: Notes Towards Writing an Alternative History of Modern Art"
69. Rose Slivka, "The New Ceramic Presence"
70. Philip Leider, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation or, Art and Politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah"
71. Robert Morris, "Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated"
72. Lee Ufan, The Art of Encounter
73. Grayson Perry, "A Refuge for Artists Who Play It Safe" and "Let the Artisans Craft Our Future"
74. Walter Gropius, "The Manifesto of the Bauhaus"
75. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, "Education and the Bauhaus"
76. Don Wallance, Shaping America's Products
77. Marguerite Wildenhain, "A Ceramist Speaks on Design"
78. Charles Eames, "The Making of a Craftsman"
79. Andrea Branzi, "The New Handicrafts"

PART 7: CURATORIAL APPROACHES
Sectional Introduction
80. Johanna Drucker, "Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture"
81. Tami Katz-Frieberg, "Craftsmen in the Factory of Images"
82. Zandra Ahl, "And What Is Your Title?"
83. Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch, "Craft Hard, Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism in Unruly Contexts"
84. Julia Bryan-Wilson, Liz Collins, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Cat Mazza, and Allison Smith, "The Politics of Craft: A Roundtable"

Annotated Guide to Further Reading
General Bibliography
Index