Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman [Kindle Edition] Author: Peter Korn | Language: English | ISBN:
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Download books file now Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman Epub Free for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer/maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and finally founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected, non-profit institution.
Furniture making, practiced as a craft in the twenty-first century, is a decidedly marginal occupation. Yet the view from the periphery can be illuminating. For Korn, the challenging work of bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one's own volition – whether in the arts, the kitchen, or the marketplace – is exactly what generates the authenticity, meaning, and fulfillment for which many of us yearn.
This is not a "how-to" book in any sense. Korn wants to get at the why of craft in particular, and the satisfactions of creative work in general, to under¬stand their essential nature. How does the making of objects shape our identities? How do the prod¬ucts of creative work inform society? In short, what does the process of making things reveal to us about ourselves? Korn draws on four decades of hands-on experience to answer these questions eloquently, and often poignantly, in this personal, introspective, and revealing book. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman [Kindle Edition] Epub Free
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- Print Length: 176 pages
- Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher (October 31, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HF28T0Y
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Why We Make Things is a book of introspection, history, scholarship, and enlightenment. Peter Korn deftly weaves stories of self, others, craft, and minds into a compelling and riveting narrative. In light of today’s widespread “Maker Movement”—most of it centered on digital tools—it is illuminating to return to physical making for insights into craft as a form of self-fashioning wherein each of us, through human effort and creativity, can put our own personal spin on tradition and, in turn, transform tradition, ourselves, and, perhaps, society as well. The claims in the book about mind and meaning are all empirically well supported in current research, though Korn does not belabor this fact. However, the book goes beyond facts that are true to discuss facts that matter. In the end, the book exemplifies something that scholarship is only now coming to realize: mind, emotion, values, and the self all merge and reinforce each other in the act of mindful making. The book is artfully written and is a fully engaging read. In my own view, we live today in the midst of many crises because we have forgotten—often in the pursuit of greed and ideology—that the world “talks back” when you act on it and that failing to listen to it with respect is dangerous for body and soul. Why We Make Things lovingly shows how we can listen to things to become better people.
By James Gee
Both honest and inviting, Why We Make Things and Why It Matters, is a book worth stopping long enough to read. Korn's memoir of how his craft has shaped him has wide applicability to other fields and lives, including my own field of urban education. When work is a vocation rather than a career, there are endless possibilities for growth in attending to the most minute, seemingly mundane interaction. A book for us all.
By Mimiinthecity
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