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Glenn Adamson

Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson’s books include Fewer, Better Things, The Invention of Craft, and The Craft Reader. His writings have also been published in museum catalogues and in Art in America, Antiques, frieze, and other periodicals. He was previously director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and has held appointments as Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and as Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.


Dark Futures: How the European Dream of Modernization Ended in Totalitarian Despair

Glenn Adamson on the Rise and Fall of Europe’s Early 20th-Century Artistic Avant-Garde
December 6, 2024  By Glenn Adamson
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Against the Myth of the
Macho Craftsman

On the Idea of Crafting as Community Support
January 22, 2021  By Glenn Adamson
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