From: Glenn Adamson [glenn.adamson@btinternet.com]

The first issue of The Journal of Modern Craft, edited by Glenn Adamson, Tanya Harrod, and Edward S. Cooke, published by Berg Publishers, has been released.

The first issue contains the following articles:

Elissa Auther, 3Fiber Art and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft, 1960-802

Brian Moeran, 3Materials, Skills and Cultural Resources: Onta Folk Art Pottery Revisited2

Andrzej Szczerski, 3Sources of Modernity: The Interpretations of Vernacular Crafts in Polish Design around 19002

Christian Weikop, 3The Arts and Crafts Education of the Brücke: Expressions of Craft and Creativity2

Tag Gronberg, 3Simon Starling: Crafting the Modern2

Statement of Practice by Simon Starling: 3Five Thousand Years (Some Notes, Some Works)2

Primary Text by Rayner Banham, 3Sparks from a Plastic Anvil: The Craftsman in Technology2 (1973), introduced by Alice Twemlow

The issue also includes an editorial introduction and a section of exhibition and book reviews.

A free sample copy, with complete PDFs of all content, can be viewed here:

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/cftj/2008/00000001/00000001