{"product_id":"fire-craft-by-erin-e-oconnor-9780231218443","title":"Fire Craft","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlassblowing by hand might seem like a dying art, yet it is thriving: Studios and universities offer popular classes, and glass art is widely exhibited and sold. Amateur and professional glassblowers alike are captivated by the choreography of fire, smoke, and molten material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy are people drawn to this ancient craft? What is distinctive about the social, physical, and intellectual experience of glassblowing? How does the body learn an art?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFire Craft\u003c\/em\u003e, Erin E. O'Connor interweaves an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers. Through compelling stories, such as her struggle to produce an elegant goblet, she shows how a novice becomes hooked by and committed to a craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReflecting on embodied knowledge, O'Connor considers how we negotiate mistakes and failures, how we strive to develop proficiency in the face of shortcomings, and how through making objects we make meaning. She also explores the history of glassblowing and how various social, environmental, and knowledge frameworks shape the valorisation of craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the furnaces of empire to the hot bodies of collaboration and love, O'Connor reveals the interconnectedness of the body with the elemental world. A gripping tale of the social world and experience of glassblowing, \u003cem\u003eFire Craft\u003c\/em\u003e passionately defends practical labour as intellectual work that changes self and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46790752174316,"sku":"9780231218443","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8241133482270.jpg?v=1756974972","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fire-craft-by-erin-e-oconnor-9780231218443","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}