ISBN: 9780231218443 - fire craft: art, body, and world among glassblowers (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In Fire Craft, Erin E. OConnor interweaves an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.50x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Glassblowing by hand might seem like a dying art, yet it is thriving: Studios and universities offer popular classes, and glass art is widely exhibited and sold. Amateur and professional glassblowers alike are captivated by the choreography of fire, smoke, and molten material. Why are people drawn to this ancient craft What is distinctive about the social, physical, and intellectual experience of glassblowing How does the body learn an art In Fire Craft, Erin E. O'Connor interweaves an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers. Through compelling stories, such as her struggle to produce an elegant goblet, she shows how a novice becomes hooked by and committed to a craft. Reflecting on embodied knowledge, O'Connor considers how we negotiate mistakes and failures, how we strive to develop proficiency in the face of shortcomings, and how through making objects we make meaning. She also explores the history of glassblowing and how various social, environmental, and knowledge frameworks shape the valorization of craft. From the furnaces of empire to the hot bodies of collaboration and love, O'Connor reveals the interconnectedness of the body with the elemental world. A gripping tale of the social world and experience of glassblowing, Fire Craft passionately defends practical labor as intellectual work that changes self and society.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Fire Craft - Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers | Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers | Erin E. O¿connor | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | Columbia University Press | EAN 9780231218443 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …