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I. 02860 pleasure and achieve more beautiful results when you weave with Troy yarns. horizons January/February 1967 Vol. XXVII No. 1 4 The Craftsman's World 5 Letters 6 Calendar 9 Our Contributors 10 Architectural Art in Germany _by Fred Mitchell 14 Glen Kaufman by Fred Schwartz 17 The Berdoy Portfolio 24 Ceramics / Photography _by Jeff Schlanger 30 Bookbinding by Kurt Londenberg by Hans Halbey 34 The Diabolic Craft of Alfonso Ossorio. by Richard Howard 38 Exhibitions John Mason. by Helen Giambruni The International Report by Elaine and Emanuel Benson 53 Where to Show The Cover: Wall construction by New York artist Alfonso Ossorio titled "Cui-Bono" (54" x 45"), done by "setting into matter a great many objects from the junk heap, the taxidermist's salon, and the jeweler's boutique." The quote is from Richard Howard's appreciation entitled "The Diabolic Craft of Alfonso Ossorio" (page 34), and the work is in the collection of Edward Dragon. Editor-in-Chief. Rose Slivka Managing Editor Hal Halverstadt Associate Editor. Patricia Dandignac Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale William Lescaze Leo Lionni Aileen 0. Webb Ceramics .Daniel Rhodes Metal .Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles I ili Blumenau Wood Charles V. W. Brooks Bookbinding. Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1967 by the American Craftsmen's Council, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Telephone: PLaza 3-7425. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; Kenneth Chorley, Vice-President; William J. Barrett, President; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Alfred Auerbach, William J. Barrett, Mrs. Lewis G. Carpenter, Kenneth Chorley, Mrs. H. Lansing Clute, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Mark Ellingson, R. Leigh Glover, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, Dorothy Liebes, Francis S. Merritt, DeWitt Peterkin, Frank Stanton, John B. Stevens, May E. Walter, Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb. Honorary trustees are Valla Lada-Mocarski and Edward Worm- ley. Craftsmen-trustees are: Trude Guermonprez, Esther Houseman, Earl McCutchen, Donald McKinley, William E. Pitney, Kenneth Shores. Membership rates: $8.00 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $1.50. Sec- ond class postage paid at New York, N.Y. The complete content of each issue of CRAFT HORIZONS is indexed in the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, available in public libraries. Book reviews published in CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm edition is available from Universal Microfilms, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Craftsman7s World MRS. GOLDBERG HONORS THE ACC: To celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the American Craftsmen's Council, Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, opened her New York apartment to officers of the Council and representative craftsmen at a champagne reception early in December. Seen at the celebration are (left to right) Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, ACC chairman of the board; Mrs. Goldberg; ACC president William j. Barrett standing behind Robert Hodges, managing director of America House; two unidentified guests and glass craftsman Erik Erikson. for the Archie Bray Foundation of Helena, Montana . From Los On the International Front Angeles comes an announcement that the Tamarind Lithography Workshop will award a limited number of training grants to quali- From the irreparably damaged city of Florence comes an urgent fied applicants in two categories: artisan-printer grants for men who plea from Italian ceramist Nino Caruso for funds to help the city's plan to become master printers in hand lithography, and curator artisans whose livelihoods were destroyed in the historic flood of grants for men and women who plan on careers in museums, gal- last November. Of the small shops run by jewelers, leather leries, or education. Interested applicants should write to: Hank workers, weavers, wool carders, and woodworkers, an estimated Baum, Associate Director, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., 6,000 were ruined—workshops gutted, raw materials washed away HO8V2 North Tamarind Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90038 . or so damaged that they are unusable, tools and equipment scat- The Architectural League of New York, which on December 19 tered and destroyed. All that remains for these craftsmen are their opened its spacious new headquarters and gallery at 41 East 65th skills and their two hands, and without immediate help, Nino Caruso Street, annually administers a number of scholarships "to encourage warns, many may be forced to give up the struggle to maintain a the quality of architecture and related arts." These include the livelihood against the growing competition of machine-made goods. Michael Friedsam award, the Birch Budette Long memorial prize, Contributions for the flood damaged craftsmen of Florence can be the J. Clawson Mills award, and the Brunner fund. The League sent to Francesco Leonardi Enapi, Via di Parione 11, Florence. Funds also presents two Gold Medal awards, honoring designs in architec- will be used for repairs and new equipment, raw materials, and ture, mural painting, sculpture, landscape architecture, engineering other professional needs . Mrs Vanderbilt Webb, president of and design, and craftsmanship in industrial and allied arts. the World Crafts Council, has called a meeting of the organization's Direction, to be held in Paris during the week of March 20, to dis- cuss implementation of recommendations which were made at the For Your Datebook Montreux conference last summer (see CRAFT HORIZONS, Septem- ber/October 1966). The areas to be covered lie in the fields of Glass craftsmen in the New York area may be interested in a series regional zoning, finances, and membership. There will also be dis- of workshops with Maurice Heaton on the techniques of fusing, cussion on the locations of the 1968 and 1970 meetings of the January 27 through February 4, at the Craft Students League (840 WCC, the latter to be the Second World Congress of Craftsmen. Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019). Eight sessions are scheduled Accompanying Mrs. Webb to Paris will be Mrs. George W. Patch, in an afternoon series (2:00 to 5:00) and an evening series (6:00 to WCC assistant secretary. En route they will attend a meeting 9:00), and the fee is $45 plus $8.50 for supplies . April 22 and 23 London of the newly formed WCC chapter in Great Britain . are the dates of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of Northern Cali- Arrangements for a weavers' tour to Scandinavia and Scotland have fornia Handweavers, to be held at the Hotel El Dorado in Sacra- been made by Else Regensteiner and Marcella Baumgaertner as the mento. The opening day's activities will include a talk by Rachael result of many requests from the enthusiastic group which accom- Mossman ("The Weaver's Heritage: Design and Techniques from panied them on their "Weavers Explore Peru and Guatemala" trip Many Lands") as well as a luncheon and fashion show. Entrance is in November of 1965. This year's tour will visit Denmark, Sweden, open to all by pre-registration of $5 sent before April 3 to: Chris Finland, Norway, and Scotland, leaving July 18 and returning August Schulz, 9674 Melrose Avenue, Elk Grove, California 95624 .. "From 8. For a descriptive brochure, write to: Marcella Baumgaertner, 3803 the Primitive to the Contemporary" is the theme of the Michigan North 55th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216. League of Handweavers' 1967 conference, slated for July 12 to 16 at Waldenwoods, Hartland. On the schedule are two workshops— "Primitive Looms and Weaving," conducted by Hallye Spurkle of Scholarships, Awards, and Grants Honolulu, and "Contemporary Fabric Design," under Mary Snyder of Pasadena, California—as well as guild and individual members' At its meeting held in Washington, D.C., on December 14 and 15, exhibits. Inquiries should be addressed to Joyce Jones, 509 Keech the National Council on the Arts approved a $5,000 matching grant Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. Readers Reply TWO Sirs: Ed Levin impresses me as a person who is both intelligent and artic- HEADQUARTERS ulate, but with an unfortunate compulsion to negative criticism. His letter published in the November/December 1966 issue of AND OVER 50 CRAFT HORIZONS seems little more than a written version of a diatribe that burst forth at the Northeast Regional Conference of the ACC at Stowe, Vermont, last August. ACTIVE AGENTS Addressing myself to the specific article Ed chose to attack—the article by Bob Florian about Nick Labino [CRAFT HORIZONS, July/ August 19661—1 find that Ed Levin's deliberate failure to find useful TO SERVE YOU information both angers me and makes me suspect of his intentions. For the article devotes itself less to who Labino is, though identi- fying him as the most knowledgeable and authoritative individual THE BEST LOOM! participating in the current glass renascence, and more to what he is doing and has done with glass formulas, color development, tools, furnaces, annealing, annealing lehr, potential hazards, etc. f&t out,ßa It thus somewhat amazed me to read that Ed has failed to learn a "single thing that Labino knows" from the article in question. Perhaps if he were to read CRAFT HORIZONS more carefully and rs/ /st a-tidf more often he might. But perhaps in this instance it is because he THE EXACT LOOM YOU NEED? really isn't all that interested in glass but in finding fault with WE HAVE..