Christopher Frayling

On Craftsmanship (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a New Bauhaus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'

The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by - among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense of urgency. Why?

A bestseller in hardback, this series of linked essays by the man who ran the Royal College of Art for many years is now available in paperback, and explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the language, in the digital age, taking an unsentimental, hard-headed look at craftsmanship today. Only when the romantic cobwebs have been blown away, it argues, can the key importance of the crafts be fully understood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849432641
• Artikelnr.: 49866046

Autorenporträt

Sir Christopher Frayling was until recently Rector of the Royal College of Art, Chair of the Arts Council England, Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Governor of the BFI. An award-winning broadcaster on radio and television, his books include Ken Adam (2005) and Sergio Leone (2005).