Wednesday, 23 February 2011

What is Craft? — "Quotes"

Mark Jones
Director, Victoria & Albert Museum

"Craft is remembering that art is seen, felt and heard as well as understood, knowing that not all ideas start with words, thinking with hands as well as head."


David Revere McFadden
Chief Curator and Vice President, Museum of Arts & Design, New York

"Craft, art, and design are words heavily laden with cultural baggage. For me, they all connote the profound engagement with materials and process that is central to creativity. Through this engagement form, function, and meaning are made tangible. It is time to move beyond the limitations of terminologies that fragment and separate our appreciation of creative actions, and consider the "behaviors of making" that practitioners share."


Edmund de Waal
Practitioner

"Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities.
It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace.
It offers places, interstices, where objects and people meet.
It is unstable, contingent.
It is about experience. It is about desire.
It can be beautiful."



http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/contemporary/crafts/what_is_craft/index.html

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