tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12210770.post114991844388216145..comments2023-09-28T03:18:37.110-04:00Comments on Greenjeans - Handmade for Conscientious Living: History of Craft: Toward a New Craft World OrderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12210770.post-1154547666455089492006-08-02T15:41:00.000-04:002006-08-02T15:41:00.000-04:00Great comments -- thank you! Mary Anne, I agree th...Great comments -- thank you! <BR/><BR/>Mary Anne, I agree that the three-world division is artificial in practice, but I have found that verbally there is sometimes a need to split hairs. Certainly in terms of marketing there's a difference, haven't you found? Or maybe I'm making too much of a rhetorical, academic debate.<BR/><BR/>Shawn, I love the comparison here to comic books and think it's totally apt. If this does become an article, I'd love to mention that parallel!Greenjeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700195811316592589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12210770.post-1154516949508944172006-08-02T07:09:00.000-04:002006-08-02T07:09:00.000-04:00Designer Craftsman, moniker used during the Arts a...Designer Craftsman, moniker used during the Arts and Crafts movement. Art, design and craft are no longer distinctions, having been put to rest almost 100 years ago, first by William Moris, then the Omega Workshop and finally the Bauhaus. Events of 2 world wars impeded a public recognition of this fact, but there we go. Conventional wisdom. Almost always wrong. Instead of standing up to our definition of artisan and craft, while I call myself both, I prefer to sidestep the entire arguement (well, as much as possible). I do agree, though, Amy and am glad you have chosen to fight the good fight. I just don't think artists, designers and craftsmen are in separate camps. It's one big, messy creative world, with good stuff and less good stuff.Mary Anne Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15449186283653624728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12210770.post-1154457561433499442006-08-01T14:39:00.000-04:002006-08-01T14:39:00.000-04:00The link to the first part of the essay is not wor...The link to the first part of the essay is not working...<BR/><BR/>As a consumer, I've never given this much thought. Before I've come across Greenjeans, I think of only stuffy wooden objects when I see the word craft. I still don't really know what craft means, and I refer to the beautiful objects in Greenjeans as just beautiful, handmade things.<BR/><BR/>This essay reminds me of the comics world/genre/industry. For so many years the underground comic artist worked and worked and very few paid any attention. Then a few years ago people started going nuts on Chris Ware and now we regularly see the works of Tomine, Seth, etc on the cover of New Yorker (which usually reserved that honor to 'illustrators'), books (the recent Penguin Classics), etc. The art world wants them (Whitney featured Ware in a biennial a few years back) and bookstores scrambled to add the section "graphic novels".<BR/><BR/>I think it's all very silly, but I think it's because we carry certain stereotype or assumptions for certain words. Even the word "art", I think it's a nasty word and would much prefer to use a "real" word such as "painting", but people would pay more attention to an "artist" than a "painter". A picture, for instance, sounds a lot more amateurish than "photograph". And it takes a certain vision and courage to stand by a certain word and try to change people's perception about it (or simply take it as it is, it's all just words anyway).<BR/><BR/>Back to craft... Craft is both design and art, and a lot more, I think. The aspect of sweat in craft is what makes it appealing to us consumers, and I'm glad that it's not dirtied by the nasty art world yet (then nobody will be able to afford a nice handmade porcelain bowl). And I think the word "artesan" is cool. I wish I can call myself that. Maybe I will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12210770.post-1154294335190306382006-07-30T17:18:00.000-04:002006-07-30T17:18:00.000-04:00I agree totally. I'm a juried member of the Leagu...I agree totally. I'm a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen, and proud of that fact. Bravo for writing this, it was like a breath of fresh air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com