Craft in Critical Theory
For numerous reasons Aesthetic and critical theories about the nature of craft practice have been slow to develop. Whereas, since the modern swing in Art History at large, Fine Art practice has been surrounded by and furthered with profuse amounts of art theory and criticism Craft theory and criticism has been, in the same period, much harder to come by; though not non-existent.
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“But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Probably more than youngsters at any age, early adolescents expect the adults they care about to demonstrate the virtues they want demonstrated. They also tend to expect adults they admire to be absolutely perfect. When adults disappoint them, they can be critical and intolerant.”
—The Lions Clubs International and the Quest Nation. The Surprising Years, I, ch.4 (1985)
“The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)