Published by the American Craft Council from 1941 to 1979, Craft Horizons magazine was the first periodical to put American craft into a conceptual framework, analysing its social meaning, technical skills, and aesthetic value. It documented the postwar studio craft movement, providing critical discourse, profiles, and international perspectives for artists and scholars, and was pivotal in elevating craft to a serious art form, bridging the gap between functional craft and conceptual art.
“This all-India issue is primarily the work of New York craftsman and photo-journalist Oppi Untracht, who has spent the past two years in India on Fulbright fellowships photographing crafts in preparation for a book on the subject. Culled from over 1,000 pictures Untracht sent from India, almost everything shown is being made in India today. The full-color pictures, available to us through the generosity of the Asia Society, were taken by New York photographer John Ross and by Elizabeth Bayley Willis of Seattle, both of whom were recently in India.”
"Articles include: Marketing Your Craft by Norbert Nelson; India's Crafts Today; The Livery of FreedomA Forceful Art by Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay; In Quest of Authenticity by Asok Mitra; Textiles by Shriman Narayan Agarwal; Weaving by Pupul Jayakar; Color by Nancy Kenealy; Metalwork by Oppi Untracht.
Title: Craft Horizons July/August 1959. India’s Crafts Today.
Author: Conrad Brown (ed.)
Publisher: American Craft Council
Publication Date: 1959
Format: stapled wraps
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Pages: 52 pp.
Language: English
Condition: Good. Bottom edge of cover and first 5 pages show signs of previous contact with moisture. small open tear to upper right of rear cover. Covers marked and slightly creased.
Stock Number: RB05204-1 RB
Published by the American Craft Council from 1941 to 1979, Craft Horizons magazine was the first periodical to put American craft into a conceptual framework, analysing its social meaning, technical skills, and aesthetic value. It documented the postwar studio craft movement, providing critical discourse, profiles, and international perspectives for artists and scholars, and was pivotal in elevating craft to a serious art form, bridging the gap between functional craft and conceptual art.
“This all-India issue is primarily the work of New York craftsman and photo-journalist Oppi Untracht, who has spent the past two years in India on Fulbright fellowships photographing crafts in preparation for a book on the subject. Culled from over 1,000 pictures Untracht sent from India, almost everything shown is being made in India today. The full-color pictures, available to us through the generosity of the Asia Society, were taken by New York photographer John Ross and by Elizabeth Bayley Willis of Seattle, both of whom were recently in India.”
"Articles include: Marketing Your Craft by Norbert Nelson; India's Crafts Today; The Livery of FreedomA Forceful Art by Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay; In Quest of Authenticity by Asok Mitra; Textiles by Shriman Narayan Agarwal; Weaving by Pupul Jayakar; Color by Nancy Kenealy; Metalwork by Oppi Untracht.
Title: Craft Horizons July/August 1959. India’s Crafts Today.
Author: Conrad Brown (ed.)
Publisher: American Craft Council
Publication Date: 1959
Format: stapled wraps
Images: illustrated in colour and b/w
Pages: 52 pp.
Language: English
Condition: Good. Bottom edge of cover and first 5 pages show signs of previous contact with moisture. small open tear to upper right of rear cover. Covers marked and slightly creased.
Stock Number: RB05204-1 RB
