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Thinking Through Craft
Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today’s visual arts, when high ‘production values’ are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft’s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft’s role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts.
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The Nature & Art of Workmanship

This is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. In it, David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept of good workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity into our visual environment.

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The Nature and Art of Workmanship
Until he died in 1993, Pye was an internationally known architect, industrial designer, instructor, and craftsman This book explores the meaning of hand skill in a thoroughly mechanized age..
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Experiencing Jesus: God's Spiritual Workmanship in the Believer (Six Pillars From Ephesians)
Book 2 of Six Pillars From Ephesians This book covers the spiritual workmanship of the believer, helping Christians discover the rich themes in the book of Ephesians The studies are practical, challenging, and revealing and will empower readers to live at a new level of spiritual maturity. Students of the Word will want the complete set of six volumes..
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Protecting His Workmanship: Teaching Your Child God's Design for Sexual Purity
Protecting His Workmanship: Teaching your child God’s design for sexual purity is not just a book to read but an experience to be shared. Workmanship was written to open and deepen the lines of communication on the challenging subject of sex and is designed for the purpose of preserving the sexual purity of children. This workbook lowers the level of intimidation on this difficult subject by providing a guideline with which to teach you children God's principles.

Protecting His Workmanship is a strongly interactive workbook which is designed to be used as six individual sessions between parent and child with the goal of understanding the purpose, beauty, and intent for sex. The six sections, each requiring one to three hours, are:

1. Physical Changes and Sexual Love – The Nuts and Bolts

2. God’s Design – Purity when Single and Faithfulness when Married

3. Infatuation and Lust vs. True Love

4. Integrity, Self-Control, and Sexual Purity

5. Whom and When Should I Date

6. The Covenant of Sexual Purity

Each of the six sessions involves three activities. First, the parent talks to their child about the topic while the child fills in a worksheet. Next, the child takes time to do an individual Bible study. Lastly, the parent and child come back together to discuss what they have learned.

The time spent studying this critical area of life together will inspire youth to save themselves for that one special person to whom they will someday make a lifelong commitment..
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The Artisans and Guilds of France
Founded in the Middle Ages, the craftsmen's guilds of France oversaw the stonecutters, plasterers, woodworkers, and other skilled artisans who built their country's great cathedrals, chteaux, and other monuments Today, these ancient guilds have adapted yet continue to nurture a tradition of fine craftsmanship in many professions.

Richly illustrated with hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this unique book brings to life the history, traditions, and achievements of these remarkable organizations. Franois Icher, author of Abrams' popular Building the Great Cathedrals, examines the origins of the guilds and the rigors of apprenticeship, and profiles the 25 traditional crafts. He also takes readers along on a journeyman's "Tour de France," revealing the guilds' legacy of art, architecture, and craftsmanship in 16 cities from Chartres to Tours.

271 illustrations, 211 in full color, 9 3/4 x 12 1/4"

FRANOIS ICHER, a scholar specializing in the guilds and craftsmen of Europe, is the author of Building the Great Cathedrals..
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