While not exhaustive and constantly growing, this bibliography lists sources that have influenced and continue to shape the Minding Making Project. We hope it can serve as a stepping stone for those exploring similar subjects and issues.
Tacit Intelligence and Embodied Knowledge
Collins, H. M. Rethinking Expertise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
———. Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Coy, Michael William. Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Dobson, C. R. Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations, 1717-1800. London: Croom Helm, 1980.
Gascoigne, Neil. Tacit Knowledge. Durham: Acumen, 2013.
Gotlieb, Marc. “The Painter’s Secret: Invention and Rivalry from Vasari to Balzac.” The Art Bulletin 84, no. 3 (2002): 469–90.
Lane, Joan. Apprenticeship in England, 1600-1914. London: UCL Press, 1996.
New Materialisms and Thing Theory
Coole, Diana H., and Samantha Frost. New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
De Landa, Manuel. A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. London ; New York: Continuum, 2006.
Dominguez Rubio, Fernando. “On the Discrepancy between Objects and Things: An Ecological Approach.” Journal of Material Culture 12, no. 1 (2016): 59–86.
Fowles, Severin. “The Perfect Subject (Postcolonial Object Studies).” Journal of Material Culture 21, no. 1 (2016): 9–27.
Gibson, James J. “The Theory of Affordances.” In The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Harman, Graham. Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphyics of Objects. Chicago: Open Court, 2002.
Harris, Jonathan. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by Joan Stambaugh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Ingold, Tim. “Materials against Materiality.” Archaeological Dialogues 14, no. 1 (June 2007): 1–16.
———. “Toward an Ecology of Materials.” Annual Review of Anthropology 41, no. 1 (2012): 427–42.
Kelsey, Robin. “Notes from the Field: Materiality.” The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (2013): 21–23.
Latour, Bruno. “Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.” Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
———. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Pinney, Christopher. “Things Happen: Or, from Which Moment Does That Object Come?” In Materiality, edited by Daniel Miller, 256–72. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Yonan, Michael. “Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18, no. 2 (2011): 232–48.
The Maker Movement
Anderson, Chris. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. London: Random House Business Books, 2012.
Crawford, Matthew B. The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or, Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good. London: Viking, 2009.
Dawkins, Nicole. “Do-It-Yourself: The Precarious Work and Postfeminist Politics of Handmaking (in) Detroit.” Utopian Studies 22, no. 2 (2011): 261–84.
Gobble, MaryAnne M. “The Rise of the User-Manufacturer.” Research Technology Management 56, no. 3 (2013): 64–66.
Guffey, Elizabeth. “Crafting Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Retro-Futurism, Steampunk, and the Problem of Making in the Twenty-First Century.” The Journal of Modern Craft 7, no. 3 (2014): 249–66.
Levine, Faythe. Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 01.
Mohomed, Iqbal, and Prabal Dutta. “The Age of DIY and Dawn of the Maker Movement.” GetMobile: Mobile Comp. and Comm. 18, no. 4 (January 2015): 41–43.
Rotman, David. “The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers.” MIT Technology Review, January 2, 2013. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/508821/the-difference-between-makers-and-manufacturers/.
Thilmany, Jean. “The Maker Movement and the U.S. Economy.” Mechanical Engineering 136, no. 12 (December 2014): 28–29.
Williams, Kristen A. “‘Old Time Mem’ry’: Contemporary Urban Craftivism and the Politics of Doing-It-Yourself in Postindustrial America.” Utopian Studies 22, no. 2 (2011): 303–20.
Factory and Industrial Making
Ai, Weiwei, and Juliet Bingham. Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds. London: Tate Modern, 2010.
Albrecht, Albert B. The American Machine Tool Industry: Its History, Growth & Decline : A Personal Perspective. United States: The Author, 2009.
Carr, Chantel, and Chris Gibson. “Geographies of Making: Rethinking Materials and Skills for Volatile Futures.” Progress in Human Geography 40, no. 3 (2016): 297–315.
Celant, Germano, Patsy Craig, William Furlong, and Mike Smith Studio. Making Art Work: Mike Smith Studio. London: Trolley, 2003.
Do Rosário, Cláudio Roberto, Liane Mahlmann Kipper, Rejane Frozza, and Bruna Bueno Mariani. “Modeling of Tacit Knowledge in Industry: Simulations on the Variables of Industrial Processes.” Expert Systems With Applications 42, no. 3 (2015): 1613–1625.
Jones, Peter. Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1820. Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press, 2008.
Lasser, Ethan W. “Factory Craft: Art and Industry in Conversation.” The Journal of Modern Craft 6, no. 3 (2013): 315–20.
Montgomery, David. “Workers’ Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century.” Labor History 17, no. 4 (Fall 1976): 485.
Roberts, John. “Temporality, Critique, and the Vessel Tradition: Bernard Leach and Marcel Duchamp.” The Journal of Modern Craft 6, no. 3 (November 1, 2013): 255–66.
Scarlett, Sarah Fayen. “The Craft of Industrial Patternmaking.” The Journal of Modern Craft 4, no. 1 (2011): 27–48.
Shales, Ezra. “‘Dekadente pottemakeres porselen’: Marcel Duchamps Fontene som keramisk produkt. [’A decadent potter’s porcelain’: Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as a ceramic product.].” Kunst og Kultur 94, no. 4 (2011): 218–229.
———. “Mass Production as an Academic Imaginary (Or, If More Must Be Said of Marcel, ‘Evacuating Duchampian Conjecture in the Age of Recursive Scholarship’).” The Journal of Modern Craft 6, no. 3 (2013): 267–74.
———. “Molding and Modeling Civic Consumption.” In Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era, 153–88. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Smiles, Samuel. “Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers.” In The Craft Reader, edited by Glenn Adamson, 65–68. Oxford: New York: Berg Publishers, 2010.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of the Industrial Arts (1914). New York: A.M. Kelley, 1964.
Craft, Skill and Deskilling
Adamson, Glenn. The Craft Reader. Oxford: New York: Berg Publishers, 2010.
———. The Invention of Craft. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Auther, Elissa. “Fiber Art and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft, 1960–80.” The Journal of Modern Craft 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 13–33.
———. String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Bell, Nicholas R. Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture. London; Washington, D.C.: Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2016.
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “Drawing Blanks: Notes on Andy Warhol’s Late Works.” October (March 1, 2009): 3–24.
Child, Danielle. “Dematerialization, Contracted Labour and Art Fabrication: The Deskilling of the Artist in the Age of Late Capitalism.” The Sculpture Journal 24, no. 3 (2015): 375–390,443.
Cook, Harold J., Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook. Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge. Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Fariello, M. Anna, Dennis Stevens, Louise Mazanti, and Paula Owen. Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art. Edited by Maria Elena Buszek. Duke University Press Books, 2011.
Gibson, Chris. “Material Inheritances: How Place, Materiality, and Labor Process Underpin the Path-Dependent Evolution of Contemporary Craft Production.” Economic Geography 92, no. 1 (January 2016): 61–86.
Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Gowlland, Geoffrey. “Unpacking Craft Skills: What Can Images Reveal about the Embodied Experience of Craft?” Visual Anthropology 28, no. 4 (2015): 286–97.
Harper, Douglas A. Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Ingold, Tim. “Walking the Plank: Meditations on a Process of Skill.” In Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, edited by John R. Dakers, 65–80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Jelfs, Brian. “A Critical Examination of Michael Polanyi’s Conception of Skills.” Human Movement Science 1, no. 3 (1982): 177–199.
Joyce, Patrick, ed. The Historical Meanings of Work. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Knott, Stephen. Amateur Craft: History and Theory. : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
Lehmann, Ulrich. “Making as Knowing: Epistemology and Technique in Craft.” The Journal of Modern Craft 5, no. 2 (2012): 149–64. doi:10.2752/174967812X13346796877950.
Nezer, Orly. “The Thinking Artist, the Fabricating Artist.” Ceramics Technical 16, no. 31 (2011 2010): 74–77.
Polanyi, Michael. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
———. The Tacit Dimension. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books 1967, 1967.
Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Workmanship. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Roberts, John. “Art After Deskilling.” Historical Materialism 18, no. 2 (2010): 77–96. doi:10.1163/156920610X512444.
———. The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade. London ; New York: Verso, 2007.
Rodenbeck, Judith. “Hands Off: Deskilling Adapted for the 21st Century.” Modern Painters 19, no. 8 (October 2007): 84–87.
Scanlan, Jennifer. “Crafting With and Against the Grid.” The Journal of Modern Craft 8, no. 2 (2015): 215–24. doi:10.1080/17496772.2015.1057401.
Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Wood, Stephen. The Degradation of Work?: Skill, Deskilling, and the Labour Process. London: Hutchinson, 1982.