Research - peer-review › Journal article
Craft
and industrial manufacture are often seen as dichotomous, with craft
being marginalized during the process of industrialization. We want to
look beyond this position, searching for craft in places where it has
gone unnoticed and where it might have bloomed anew in the interstices
created by industrialization. We explore these questions by studying
Josiah Wedgwood’s innovative craft and experimental practices, developed
through a close reading of his extensive published correspondence. What
we offer is a reinterpretation of Wedgwood’s practices positioned
against the existing historiography, both standard and revisionist. Our
reinterpretation is developed through application of a
theoretical–methodological framework of phenomenological micro-history,
in which craft is thought of primarily as a space that makes possible
what Martin Heidegger called ‘occasioning’.
Publication information
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Journal of Design History |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISSN | 0952-4649 |
| State | Published - 21 Jan 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Epub ahead of print. Published online January 21 2016Keywords
- Crafts, Manufacture, Wedgwood
