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The New Politics of the Handmade
Craft, Art and Design
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary craft, art theory, cultural politics, and global economic effects on creative practices. Suitable for scholars, artists, curators, and those engaged with themes of labour, sustainability, and cultural identity in the arts.
Explores a wide range of craft forms and practices to address the politics of making and politically-engaged and activist craft production.
Explores a wide range of craft forms and practices to address the politics of making and politically-engaged and activist craft production.
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Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.
The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft’s connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents. They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.
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This anthology offers a comprehensive and engaged overview of the political and ethical debates surrounding contemporary craft. Praised for its insightful conversation, copious notes, helpful index, and colour illustrations, it effectively introduces complex topics while challenging unexamined claims about craft as a progressive political movement and sustainable practice. Contributors include scholars, artists, and curators who chart a nuanced path forward. Reviews come from notable voices such as Jenni Sorkin and Elissa Auther.
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ISBN: 9781784538248
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 December 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 70 bw illus
Contributors:
- Edited by Anthea Black
- Edited by Nicole Burisch
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 540g
Pages: 298
About the Author
Anthea Black is a Canadian artist, writer, and Assistant Professor in Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts. Her writing on contemporary art, craft and performance appears in The Craft Reader, Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art, Making Otherwise: Craft and Material Fluency in Contemporary Art, and Rita McKeough: WORKS. She is the co-editor of HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education and co-publisher of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism. Black has exhibited work in Canada, the United States, Norway, and The Netherlands, and curated Super String, No Place: Queer Geographies on Screen and PLEASURE CRAFT.
Nicole Burisch is a Canadian critic and curator. She is based in Ottawa, where she is Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Her writings have been published in The Craft Reader and Utopic Impulses: Essays in Contemporary Ceramics, and periodicals including the Cahiers métiers d’art :: Craft Journal, and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. She was Managing Editor for Desire/Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, published by Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. She has worked with organizations such as Centre des arts actuels Skol and M:ST Performative Art Festival, and was a 2014-2016 Core Fellow Critic-in-Residence with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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