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-{{Template}}A '''craft''' is a [[skill]], especially involving practical [[The Arts|arts]]. It may refer to a [[trade]] or particular art.+{| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"
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 +"The way that only certain activities are [[Classificatory disputes about art|classified today as art]] is a [[Social constructionism|social construction]]. The art history book ''[[The Invention of Art]]'' (2003), referencing "[[The Modern System of the Arts]]" (1951) by Paul Oskar Kristeller, finds evidence that the older system of the arts before our modern system ([[fine art]]) held art to be any [[skill]]ed [[human activity]] i.e. [[Ancient Greek society]] did not possess the term art but ''[[techne]]''. Techne can be understood neither as [[art]] or [[craft]], the reason being that the distinctions of art and craft are historical products that came later on in human history. ''Techne'' included [[painting]], [[sculpting]] and [[music]] but also; cooking, medicine, [[horsemanship]], [[geometry]], [[carpentry]], [[prophecy]], and farming etc." --Sholem Stein
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 +"[[Charles Robert Cockerell|Cockerell]]'s division of the arts into poetry and prose revealed the continuing sense that poetry was one of the fine arts. It also identified [[high art]] with non-[[function|functional]] objects. For Cockerell, in order to be a truly [[Disinterestedness |disinterested]] vehicle of artistic ideas, a genre had to be severed from perceivable [[use-value]]. For this reason, he positions [[architecture]] alongside the [[decorative arts]]. For [[Richard Redgrave|Redgrave]], utility was irrelevant. The [[Authorial intent|intention]] behind the creation of the object was the key to its status as art. Using a position usually associated with [[John Ruskin]], he was arguing that an was a quality that could be applied to any ..." --''[[The Culture of Craft]]'', [[Peter Dormer]], 1997
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 +A '''craft''' is a [[skill]], especially involving practical [[The Arts|arts]]. It may refer to a [[trade]] or particular art.
The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a '''craft-brother''' is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a '''craft-guild''' is, historically, a [[guild]] of workers in the same trade. See some further examples below. The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a '''craft-brother''' is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a '''craft-guild''' is, historically, a [[guild]] of workers in the same trade. See some further examples below.
-The term is often used to describe the family of artistic practices within the '''[[decorative art]]s''' that traditionally are defined by their relationship to functional or utilitarian products (such as [[sculptural]] forms in the vessel tradition) or by their use of such natural media as [[wood]], [[clay]], [[glass]], [[textiles]], and [[metal]]. Crafts practiced by independent artists working alone or in small groups are often referred to as '''[[studio craft]]'''. Studio craft includes [[studio pottery]], [[metal work]], [[weaving]], [[wood turning]] and other forms of [[wood working]], [[glass blowing]], and [[glass art]]. 
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-A '''craft fair''' is an organized event to display crafts by a number of exhibitors. 
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-[[Folk art]] follows craft traditions, in contrast to [[fine art]] or "high art". 
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-Both [[Freemasonry]] and [[Wicca]] are alternatively know as 'The Craft' by their adherents. 
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==See also== ==See also==
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"The way that only certain activities are classified today as art is a social construction. The art history book The Invention of Art (2003), referencing "The Modern System of the Arts" (1951) by Paul Oskar Kristeller, finds evidence that the older system of the arts before our modern system (fine art) held art to be any skilled human activity i.e. Ancient Greek society did not possess the term art but techne. Techne can be understood neither as art or craft, the reason being that the distinctions of art and craft are historical products that came later on in human history. Techne included painting, sculpting and music but also; cooking, medicine, horsemanship, geometry, carpentry, prophecy, and farming etc." --Sholem Stein


"Cockerell's division of the arts into poetry and prose revealed the continuing sense that poetry was one of the fine arts. It also identified high art with non-functional objects. For Cockerell, in order to be a truly disinterested vehicle of artistic ideas, a genre had to be severed from perceivable use-value. For this reason, he positions architecture alongside the decorative arts. For Redgrave, utility was irrelevant. The intention behind the creation of the object was the key to its status as art. Using a position usually associated with John Ruskin, he was arguing that an was a quality that could be applied to any ..." --The Culture of Craft, Peter Dormer, 1997

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A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art.

The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a craft-brother is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a craft-guild is, historically, a guild of workers in the same trade. See some further examples below.

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