Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950

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• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772823684
• Year: 2001

This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Abstract
• Résumé
• Contents
• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2 HISTORIOGRAPHY: "A NEW AND FRESH UTTERANCE"
• CHAPTER 3 CRAFTS: "AN IMPORTANT ACTIVITY OF CANADIAN CITIZENS"
• CHAPTER 4 ORGANIZED CRAFT: "WHERE CRAFTS FLOURISH THERE WILL BE FOUND A HAPPY AND CONTENTED PEOPLE'"
• CHAPTER 5 STUDIO CRAFT: "NOT ONLY A CRAFT BUT A MAJOR ART"
• CHAPTER 6 MUSEUMS AND CRAFT COLLECTING: "A COURAGEOUS BUT PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE"
• CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX 1
• APPENDIX 1:2a-e
• APPENDIX 1:3
• APPENDIX 2a-h
• BIBLIOGRAPHY