Contents:
[I.] Craft as a flexible category : What is architecture, 1919 / Walter Gropius
What I believe, 1922 / W.R. Lethaby
The division of the arts, 1962 / George Kubler
Tactile sensibility, 1966 / Anni Albers
Is anything done by hand? 1968 / David Pye
Something from nothing (Toward a definition of women's 'hobby art'), 1978 / Lucy R. Lippard
Readymade or handmade? 1997 / Joan Key
The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology, 1992 / Alfred Gell
Textile art: who are you? 2001 / Sarat Maharaj
Skill and deskilling in art after the readymade, 2007 / John Roberts
Craft as supplemental, 2007 / Glenn Adamson
Making is knowing, 2012 / Ulrich Lehmann
Eleven (contradictory) propositions in response to the question: what is contemporary craft? 2013 / Julia Bryan-Wilson
The art of medicine: materiality and thread, 2017 / Roger Kneebone
[II.] Folk vernacular modern : Letter to Alfred Schaer, 1924 / Rainer Maria Rilke
The wheelwright's shop, 1924 / George Sturt
Finished! Replaced by a tin can, 1925 / Le Corbusier
The storyteller, 1936 / Walter Benjamin
All art ought to be folkelig, 1944 / Henry Heerup
Mario Merz's cones, 2011 / Victoria Mitchell
Sheila Hicks, 1969 / Claude Lévi-Strauss
The white bird, 1988 / John Berger
Gee's Bend modern, 2003 / Richard Kalina
In conversation with Laurie Britton Newell, 2007 / Lu Shengzhong
Ana Lupas, 2017 / Juliet Bingham
Nearing the moon to earth, 2010 / Alessandro Poli
[III.] Through the mirror of production : Division of labour and manufacture, 1854 / Karl Marx
Art and industry, 1934 / Herbert Read
The life of the artisan, 1946 / Ettore Sottsass
In conversation with Jeanne Siegel, 1970 / Carl Andre
Sparks from the plastic anvil: the craftsman in technology, 1973 / Reyner Banham
The artisan, 1973 / Jean Baudrillard
The assembly line, 1978 / Robert Linhart
Zeroes + ones: digital women + the new technoculture, 1998 / Sadie Plant
Needles, 2007 / Paulo Herkenhoff
Mechanic mythologist: David Smith, 2008 / Robert Slifkin
Quarrymen in Tuscany, 2009 / Giovanni Contini
Labour made visible: Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki's Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit, 2015 / Hollyamber Kennedy
Soil so good: Neil Brownsword's reinventions, 2017 / Ezra Shales
[IV.] Fragile distinctions : My ceramics, 1939 / Lucio Fontana
Black Mountain College and the crafts, 2005 / Edmund de Waal
Subversive majesty: Peter Voulkos' Rocking pot, 1992 / Garth Clark
Statement, 1981 / Alison Britton
Fear of clay, 1982 / John Perreault
On furniture, 1986 / Donald Judd
The hatred of the object, 1995 / Phyllida Barlow
Classification and its consequences: the case of fibre art, 2002 / Elissa Auther
Thoughts in a vat: thinking through Annie Cattrell, 2004 / Cathy Gere
Looks brilliant on paper but who exactly is going to make it? 2006 / Mia Fineman
Production notes, 2007 / Bridget Riley
Handspring Puppet Company, 2009 / Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones
In conversation with Okwui Enwezor, 2011 / El Anatsui
Manifesto gesamtkunsthandwerk, 2011 / Karl Fritsch, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard
Object lesson, 2012 / Ulrich Lehmann
Seeing may be believing, 2012 / Rochelle Steiner
Marker to market: Ruth Asawa reappraised, 2015 / Sarah Archer
The plant: notes on Troy town art pottery, 2016 / Aaron Angell
The story behind the artwork, 2016 / Jessi Reaves
[V.] Resistance and counter-fabrication : Gandhi, cloth and self-government, 1989 / Susan S. Bean
Pots, politics, paradise, 2000 / Kenneth E. Silver
The undesignable, 2006 / Zhang Qing
Magdalena Abakanowicz, 1994 / Barbara Rose
autoprogettazione?, or make it yourself? 1974 / Enzo Mari
Elaine Reichek's 'Native intelligence', 1992 / Nancy Princenthal
Thread of attachment, 2007 / Claire Pajaczowska
Aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand, 2007 / bell hooks
Martin Puryear: Artisan, 2008 / Michael Auping
Knitting is..., 2008 / Sabrina Gschwandtner
The toaster project, 2011 / Thomas Thwaites
Scaling up: Theaster Gates, Jr, and his toolkit, 2013 / Ethan W. Lasser
The complexity of a legacy, 2013 / Studio Formafantasma & Libby Sellers
Live from disseminated, 2016 / Jenni Sorkin
