Talk:Craft Horizons

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:03, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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Craft Horizons cover, 1949

• ... that Craft Horizons (cover pictured) both documented and shaped the changing history of the American craft movement? Source: Minnesota Museum of American Art, "Over the course of almost four decades, Craft Horizons magazine documented and shaped the American craft movement..."
  • ALT1:... that Craft Horizons (cover pictured) developed an international focus in part because of the many designers who left Europe due to World War II? Source: Sarah Archer, in American Craft Inquiry, "World War II sent scores of designers from the Bauhaus and elsewhere in Europe to the United States, where they would work and mentor generations of American designers for decades... where Craft Horizons began its tenure documenting the traditional and vibrant crafts of the United States, largely in rural areas, and doling out advice from society decorators and curators at major museums, the magazine’s aesthetic and conceptual about face in the 1950’s and ’60s reflected a new way of understanding craft practice..."

• Reviewed: Aung Myo Min
• Comment: For the newly-formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Craft! Copyright of Craft Horizons was not renewed, so image is now Public domain.

Converted from a redirect by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk). Self-nominated at 22:02, 16 September 2021 (UTC).

Interesting detailed article on fine sources, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed and catchy, but I think the Miró might be even catchier. Anyway, you will have to find a way to say "pictured" in the hooks, such as (cover pictured). I wonder if we really need the quotation marks in the original, and if we keep them, if we then have to say who thinks so. In the ALT, imagine a reader who has no idea what these horizons are (a book? a play? ...) - what does "develop" mean then? Perhaps rephrase? I feel a tendency to like the ALT more. Saying it's a periodical might be a simple solution, even if not too elegant. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:35, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

• Hi Gerda Arendt, thanks for the very helpful suggestions for cleaning up the ALTs. Since you're the first commenter, I've just incorporated them into ALT and ALT1 above. I like both images, the 1949 image may be better suited to ALT which references American craft and the 1950 to ALT1 which mentions Europe. I too am more inclined towards ALT. Do you think part of the "hookiness" for it might be not quite knowing what Craft Horizons is? Have a great day. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 19:09, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

  Thank you for the changes, but now I like the original better ;) - The ALT didn't get better with the insertion of "as a publication" because now I read "as a publication in part" and don't know what that is. Let's do this:

  I approve the original, and if you rather want the other, get the other image also, and find an unambiguous way to say what the horizons are, or - as you suggested - leave it open. I'll watch, and please do the same, - we get many comments from prep builders these days. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

  After another change, I also approve ALT1, but the pic goes better with the original.

ALT0 to T:DYK/P5 without image