Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is also author of The Craft Reader (Berg, 2009) and Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007).

[An] engaging, provocative book

• The Invention of CraftIntroductionPart One: ManipulationThe Centre Holds The Carved and the FlatThe Undisciplined ArtisanPoor Plain and Paltry: The Decline of CarvingThe Cutting EdgeThe Hands of OthersPart Two: MysteryThe Age of the RevealPorcelain: A Modern ArcanumSleights of HandAn Elastic AgeExplained Away: Craft and Cultural ImprovementThe Task of Re-Enchantment The New ArcanistsPart Three: MechanicalAll Things But A SelfState of NatureReplication and the Industrial ArtisanThe Reproductive ContinuumAnalogue PracticeIn and Out of TouchPart Four: MemoryCraft as Memory WorkDismantling RuskinUnited and IndustriousAffective RelationsStitches in TimeIndex

Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is also author of The Craft Reader (Berg, 2009) and Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007).

[An] engaging, provocative book

• The Invention of CraftIntroductionPart One: ManipulationThe Centre Holds The Carved and the FlatThe Undisciplined ArtisanPoor Plain and Paltry: The Decline of CarvingThe Cutting EdgeThe Hands of OthersPart Two: MysteryThe Age of the RevealPorcelain: A Modern ArcanumSleights of HandAn Elastic AgeExplained Away: Craft and Cultural ImprovementThe Task of Re-Enchantment The New ArcanistsPart Three: MechanicalAll Things But A SelfState of NatureReplication and the Industrial ArtisanThe Reproductive ContinuumAnalogue PracticeIn and Out of TouchPart Four: MemoryCraft as Memory WorkDismantling RuskinUnited and IndustriousAffective RelationsStitches in TimeIndex

Glenn Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is also author of The Craft Reader (Berg, 2009) and Thinking Through Craft (Berg, 2007).

[An] engaging, provocative book

• The Invention of CraftIntroductionPart One: ManipulationThe Centre Holds The Carved and the FlatThe Undisciplined ArtisanPoor Plain and Paltry: The Decline of CarvingThe Cutting EdgeThe Hands of OthersPart Two: MysteryThe Age of the RevealPorcelain: A Modern ArcanumSleights of HandAn Elastic AgeExplained Away: Craft and Cultural ImprovementThe Task of Re-Enchantment The New ArcanistsPart Three: MechanicalAll Things But A SelfState of NatureReplication and the Industrial ArtisanThe Reproductive ContinuumAnalogue PracticeIn and Out of TouchPart Four: MemoryCraft as Memory WorkDismantling RuskinUnited and IndustriousAffective RelationsStitches in TimeIndex