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Art: Crafts, Technology, and Material Culture

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Combining Aesthetic Intent with Utilitarian Value, Hand-Crafted objects may be beautiful as well as functional. Crafts rely upon human ingenuity and productivity. They encompass both the products and the processes of production that comprise most aspects of material culture. The crafts of preindustrial Iran achieved distinction for their high levels of technical and aesthetic accomplishment. At different times in Iranian history, crafts sustained local economies, generated income from trade, and brought international fame.As with all arts, crafts tend to be culturally expressive, exhibiting styles that may be geographically and temporally defined. Determinants of style may include availability of materials, local traditions of craftsmanship, levels of state intervention and other sources of influence, as well as aesthetic preferences. In Iran, from household production for home consumption to cottage industry and commercial city workshops, and from nomadic encampments to court ateliers, crafts represent products of nomads, rural villagers, city dwellers, and courtiers.
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Title: Art: Crafts, Technology, and Material Culture
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Combining Aesthetic Intent with Utilitarian Value, Hand-Crafted objects may be beautiful as well as functional.
Crafts rely upon human ingenuity and productivity.
They encompass both the products and the processes of production that comprise most aspects of material culture.
The crafts of preindustrial Iran achieved distinction for their high levels of technical and aesthetic accomplishment.
At different times in Iranian history, crafts sustained local economies, generated income from trade, and brought international fame.
As with all arts, crafts tend to be culturally expressive, exhibiting styles that may be geographically and temporally defined.
Determinants of style may include availability of materials, local traditions of craftsmanship, levels of state intervention and other sources of influence, as well as aesthetic preferences.
In Iran, from household production for home consumption to cottage industry and commercial city workshops, and from nomadic encampments to court ateliers, crafts represent products of nomads, rural villagers, city dwellers, and courtiers.

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