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Kenvin, Richard.
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Surfboards -- United States -- Design and construction -- History.
Surfing -- United States.
Surfing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Subculture.
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Surf craft : design ...
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Surf craft : design and the culture of board riding / Richard Kenvin ; edited by Christine Knoke ; photographs by Ryan Field, Mingei International Museum, San Diego.
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Kenvin, Richard.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2014.
Subjects
Surfboards -- United States -- Design and construction -- History.
Surfing -- United States.
Surfing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Subculture.
ISBN:
9780262027601 (hbk.)
0262027607 (hbk.)
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards are mass-produced with fiberglass and a stew of petrochemicals, moving or floating billboards for athletes and their brands, emphasizing the commercial rather than the cultural. Surf Craft maps this evolution, examining surfboard design and craft with 150 color images and an insightful text. From the ancient Hawaiian alaia, the traditional board of the common people, to the unadorned boards designed with mathematical precision but built by hand by Bob Simmons, to the store-bought longboards popularized by the 1959 surf-exploitation movie Gidget, board design reflects both aesthetics and history. The decline of traditional alaia board riding is not only an example of a lost art but also a metaphor for the disintegration of traditional culture after the Republic of Hawaii was overthrown and annexed in the 1890s. In his text, Richard Kenvin looks at the craft and design of surfboards from a historical and cultural perspective. He views board design as an exemplary model of mingei, or art of the people, and the craft philosophy of Soetsu Yanagi. Yanagi believed that a design's true beauty and purpose are revealed when it is put to its intended use. In its purest form, the craft of board building, along with the act of surfing itself, exemplifies Mingei.
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