CRAFT HORIZONS: June 1971

Anne Arnold   |       |   The Carl Kempe Collection    |   Carl and Heidi Bucher     |   Sheila Hicks     |   Ron Nagle in Rock and Clay  |   Jeanne Reynal  |   California Design XI , etc. 

Rose Slivka [Editor]: CRAFT HORIZONS. New York: American Craftsmen's Council, Volume 31, Number 3, June 1971. Original edition. Slim quarto. Saddle stitched printed wrappers. 78 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Multiple paper stocks and press techniques. Wrappers lightly rubbed and worn, but a very good copy.

9.5 x 12.25 magazine with 78 pages of editorial content plus trade advertisements. During its nearly 40 years in print, Craft Horizons documented the craft movement as it happened . . . In this pre-Internet era, Craft Horizons was the field’s tutorial guide, its social network and image-sharing database. It gave artists, enthusiasts, scholars, and casual hobbyists a bird’s eye view on all that was occurring in craft. By the 1970s, Craft Horizons had grown in the field’s leading voice. In 1979, its publisher, the American Craft Council, rebranded the magazine as American Craft, which is still in print today.

Contents

• The Craftsman's World
• Letters
• Books
• Film
• Our Contributors
• Workshop: Photofabrication: Eleanor Moty
• Anne Arnold: Carter Ratcliff
• The Carl Kempe Collection: John Broztoski
• Carl and Heidi Bucher Need Your Body: Barbara Schwartz
• Sheila Hicks at Rabat: Betty Werther
• Ron Nagle in Rock and Clay: Hal Halverstadt
• Jeanne Reynal: Barbara Guest
• The Paper World of Mino: Mary Crowne Dorst
• California Design XI: Susan Peterson
• Exhibitions
• Calendar

Over the course of almost four decades, Craft Horizons documented and shaped the American craft movement, growing from a newsletter to a respected journal with an international readership.

From the very beginning Craft Horizons magazine aimed to create a network and a conversation. In its very first issue, the magazine featured an essay titled “What is a Craftsman?” by Richard F. Bach of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Above the article the museum’s editors included a prompt that challenged readers to think critically about Bach’s definition: “How many of our readers agree with him? How many disagree? Won’t you write us your definition for our next issue? … Progress comes from an interchange of ideas, intellectual disagreement and frank discussion. We count on hearing from you.” Over the four decades that followed the magazine’s editors, contributors, and readers continued this conversation, interrogating craft’s relationship with technology and contemporary art, evaluating the merits of crafts education, and forging a new identity for the modern craftsperson. [Minnesota Museum of American Art]

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