Arts and crafts is cactus : the collection since 1945

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Frankfurt/Main, Germany : Museum Angewandte Kunst ; Stuttgart, Germany : Arnoldsche, [2022] and ©2022

Subject:

MAK Frankfurt - Exhibitions
Decorative arts - Exhibitions
Decorative arts - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Runde, Sabine, editor, author
K, Matthias Wagner, editor, author
Achenbach, Nora von, author
MAK Frankfurt, host institution

ISBN:

9783897906532 and 3897906538

Description:

497 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates, 34 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, November 6, 2021-March 27, 2022--Colophon and "The German term 'kunsthandwerk', literally 'artistic handcraft', was translated throughout this publication as 'arts and craft'"--p. 26

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Welcoming Address. The Polytechnic Foundation of Frankfurt am Main / Roland Kaehlbrandt -- Welcoming Address. Hessische Kulturstiftung / Eva Claudia Scholtz -- Arts and Crafts is Cactus : A Preamble / Matthias Wagner K -- Arts and Crafts is... / Sabine Runde -- Arts and Crafts as Adventure / Eva Linhart -- The Collection since 1945 Special Selection / Sabine Runde -- From the Nimubs of the Luxurious to Sustainability : Contemporary Silver Design Mirrored by the Silver Triennial / Christianne Weber-St̲ber -- God of Fire and Pandora : Thoughts on Contemporary Jewellery / Ellen Maurer Zilioli -- Textile Art since 1945 / Beatrijs Sterk -- Glass, Breath, Meaning and Form : New Ways between Immateriality and Materiality, Fortuity and Construction / Christina Schroeter-Herrel -- One-offs / Rike Felke -- Handiwork of the Romantic Age : Between Artistic Value and an End in Itself / Christiane Holm -- The Transcendental Pot : East Asia and Western Ceramics / Nora von Achenbach -- The Collection since 1945 Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main / Sabine Runde

Summary:

"The term arts and crafts poses as many questions as there are preconceived opinions about it. It is associated with individuality, uniqueness, a multi-perspectival nature, decorative potential, artistic quality and a high experiential value. This publication, accompanying the exhibition of the same name, examines the developments in arts and crafts from the second half of the twentieth century, as exemplified by the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst. Scale reproductions of plates, furniture, cutlery, jewellery and vases highlight their surprising variegation in form. In their essays, the ten authors encounter diverse approaches to the broad terrain of arts and crafts: from the relationship between East Asia and Western ceramics, via the handicrafts of the Romantic period, to the adventure that is arts and crafts"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NK520.G3 F733 2022

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