"Art Versus Craft: The Issue of Craftsmanship in Twentieth Century Art"
After reading both articles i found it quite funny when the word "craft" came up and its relationship to modern ceramics and historic ceramics. on the one hand critics describe historic pottery as having more of a connection to this idea of craft and the hand made, where as today the term craft has been diluted by these ideas of mass production and mechanical processes. but when i really think about it, humanity has always been driven by technological developments threw time. we are subjects of the tools we use, find, and develop. For Example, the potters wheel, which has been around for quite some time, has shaped the way ceramic artists have worked for centuries. Those historic craft potters from korea of japan were utilizing all the technological developments of their time, which included the potters wheel. The wheel was a form of mechanical creation combined with the ideas of craft, yet for some reason those historic potters were more connected to "Craft" where as current potters are not. in my eyes we are doing the same exact thing just at a different time, we utilized the tools around use to further develop the world around use.
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