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Notes

Introduction

1
Works on display included paintings by Colin McCahon, Toss Woollaston and Rita
Angus, pottery by Len Castle and furniture by Ernst Plischke.
2
Peter Gibbs, 'Craft Art Crossroads', Listener, 145, 2835 August 13, 1994, p.42.
3
ibid. ‘Eastern humility’ is a reference to the philosophy of the Japanese patron of craft and
philosopher, Sōetsu Yanagi.
4
In a study carried out in 1985 by Dr Kerr Inkson, studio potters were asked about issues that
concerned them. One potter responded by saying that over the previous eighteen months there had
been a move to ‘one-off pieces’. See 'Working Paper No 16, Craftsmanship and Job Satisfaction: A
Study of Potters', 1985, p.40.
5 John Wood, 'New Zealand Potters 5th Exhibition Catalogue', Christchurch, 1961.
6
ibid.
7 Miria Simpson, 'Harakeke Weaving School', Te Ao Hou, December, 65 1968, p.47.
8
Peter Cape, Artists and Craftsmen in New Zealand, Auckland, 1969.
9 ibid., p.9.
10
Peter Cape, 'Pots and Potters,' in New Zealand’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation, Auckland Vol.
21, 1978, p.2821.
11
Peter Cape, Please Touch. A Survey of the Three-Dimensional Arts in New Zealand,, Auckland,
1980.
12 ibid., p.11.
13
ibid.

1. Origins

1
John Scott in Justine Olsen, John Parker, and Cliff Whiting, eds, Mau Mahara : Our Stories in Craft
Auckland, 1990, p.3.
2
G. R. Lealand, A Foreign Egg in Our Nest?: American Popular Culture in New Zealand, Wellington,
1988, p.28.
3
Edward Lucie-Smith, The Story of Craft. The Craftsman’s Role in Society, Oxford, 1981, p.11.
4 ibid.
5
ibid., p.13. See also David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship, London, 1995, pp.11 -2.
6
The Second Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the Technological Revolution, is generally
thought to be a phase of the Industrial Revolution that emerged between the late nineteenth century
and the First World War and was characterised by an increase in mass production, production lines
and dramatic economic growth in Western countries.
7
David Gross, The Past in Ruins: Tradition and the Critique of Modernity, Critical Perspectives on
Modern Culture, Amherst, 1992, p.44.
8 ibid.
9
ibid. p.73. See also Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of
Work, New York, 2009, p.29.
10
Colin Slade, 'If It's Craft It's Art', New Zealand Crafts, Summer, 26 1988, p.12.
11
Christopher Frayling and Helen Snowden, 'The Myth of the Happy Artisan ', Crafts, 54 Jan-Feb,
1982, p.17.
12
Robert Blauner, 'Work Satisfaction and Industrial Trends in Modern Society,' in Labor and Trade
Unionism: An Interdisciplinary Reader, Walter Galenson and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds, New York,
1960, pp.352 - 5. See also Peter Dormer, 'Wishful Thinking: A Thesis on Skill and the Studio Crafts',
PhD thesis, Royal College of Art, 1992, p.17.

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