Craft /
Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A vital resource through which to understand the ways technologies, materials, techniques and tools are investigated through the lens of craft in contemporary art. Craft is a contested concept in a...
| Uniform Title: | Craft (M.I.T. Press) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Documents of contemporary art series.
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| Summary: | Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A vital resource through which to understand the ways technologies, materials, techniques and tools are investigated through the lens of craft in contemporary art. Craft is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labour and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers, and drawing on poetry, fiction, anthropology and sociology. Reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product and ideology. |
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| Physical Description: | 238 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262535830 0262535831 0854882669 9780854882663 |