The maker's hand : American studio furniture, 1940-1990 /

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Author / Contributor: Cooke, Edward S.
Corporate Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Other authors / contributors: Ward, Gerald W. R., L'Ecuyer, Kelly H.
Imprint: Boston : MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, c2003.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Foreword by The Furniture Society
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: defining the field
  • Woodworkers: the beginnings of the studio furniture movement
  • The challenge of freewheeling artist-craftsmen: tradition and innovation in the 1960s
  • Technofetishism: technical virtuosity and exotic woods in the 1970s
  • The professionalization of studio furniture: the 1980s
  • Afterword
  • Makers' biographies
  • Select schools and programs in furniture making and woodworking
  • Select galleries
  • Chronology of select exhibitions.