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The Cutting Edge: Scotland's Contemporary Crafts
No full textThe Cutting Edge celebrates the diverse range of innovative and exciting new craft work currently being produced by emerging Scottish artists in a wide range of media – ceramics, glass, metal, textiles, paper, leather, furniture and baskets. As well as essays by leading figures on the contemporary craft scene the book also includes interviews and biographical portraits of all the participating makers with illuminating details about their practice, techniques and work. Based on the touring exhibition The Cutting Edge and companion volume to Scotland’s Crafts. Edited by Catriona Baird, freelance curator for the project, and Rose Watban, Curator of Glass and Ceramics (Modern) at National Museums Scotland. Photographs by Shannon Tofts
A rightful place in the scheme of things: a history of craft resources in Scotland
Get PDFThis essay was contributed to a book published on the occasion of 'The Cutting Edge', a major touring exhibition of contemporary Scottish craft, running at the National Museum of Scotland from 26 January until 29 April 2007, and then visiting Kilmarnock, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.\ud
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'The Cutting Edge' exhibition showcases the most innovative, challenging, and skilful craft work currently being produced in Scotland, in a wide range of media including ceramics, glass, metal, textiles, paper, leather, and baskets. The exhibition is the result of a three year partnership project involving four of Scotland's museum services who have a particular interest in supporting contemporary craft makers and exhibiting their work.\ud
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The book includes interviews, biographical details, portraits and work by all of the artists, and essays by leading international craft writers including Philippa Swann, Simon Olding, Grace Cochrane, and David Revere McFadden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A passion for glass. The Dan Klein & Alan J. Poole catalogue of the glass collection
No full textA dazzling collection of modern glass was gifted to National Museums Scotland by Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole in 2009. Dan and Alan began collecting in the late 1970s and over the subsequent thirty years assembled one of the most comprehensive collections of modern glass, predominately British and Irish. The book showcases this exquisite collection - work by glassmakers at the very cutting edge of their art
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