Rudeness and the Raw
Abstract
This chapter discusses the Renaissance sensibility for order, symmetry and the elevation of the individual as an originating cause. Through Ruskin, then Heidegger, comes a discussion of how humans relate to things as equipment, as tools, how these relational and regional settings are those to which all craft work adheres, and how, nevertheless, we can be unhomed from such. There is a focus on the work of the potter Gillian Lowndes as an exemplar of this unhoming.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Crafts
Textile
and Design
Art
Politics
and Modernism
Aesthetics
and Perception
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 19–50
- Publication date
- 27 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter