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Extra/ordinary : craft and contemporary art / edited by Maria Elena Buszek.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Durham, NC ; London : Duke University Press, 2011Description: xii, 306 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822347392
  • 9780822347620
Subject(s):
Contents:
Making and naming : the lexicon of studio craft / M. Anna Fariello -- Validity is in the eye of the beholder : mapping craft communities of practice / Dennis Stevens -- Super-objects : craft as an aesthetic position / Louise Mazanti -- Fabrication and encounter : when content is a verb / Paula Owen -- How the ordinary becomes extraordinary : the modern eye and the quilt as art form / Karin E. Peterson -- Wallpaper, the decorative, and contemporary installation art / Elissa Auther -- Handwork and hybrids : recasting the craft of letterpress printing / Betty Bright -- Elastic/expanding : contemporary conceptual ceramics / Jo Dahn -- Craftivist history / Betsy Greer -- Rebellious doilies and subversive stitches : writing a craftivist history / Kirsty Robertson -- Craft hard die free : radical curatorial strategies for craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch -- Loving attention : an outburst of craft in contemporary art / Janis Jefferies -- Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it : reimagining craft identities using tactics of queer theory / Lacey Jane Roberts -- Men who make : the 'flow' of the amateur designer/maker / Andrew Jackson -- Crochet and the cosmos : an interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek.
Summary: Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 745.501 BUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12358

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making and naming : the lexicon of studio craft / M. Anna Fariello -- Validity is in the eye of the beholder : mapping craft communities of practice / Dennis Stevens -- Super-objects : craft as an aesthetic position / Louise Mazanti -- Fabrication and encounter : when content is a verb / Paula Owen -- How the ordinary becomes extraordinary : the modern eye and the quilt as art form / Karin E. Peterson -- Wallpaper, the decorative, and contemporary installation art / Elissa Auther -- Handwork and hybrids : recasting the craft of letterpress printing / Betty Bright -- Elastic/expanding : contemporary conceptual ceramics / Jo Dahn -- Craftivist history / Betsy Greer -- Rebellious doilies and subversive stitches : writing a craftivist history / Kirsty Robertson -- Craft hard die free : radical curatorial strategies for craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch -- Loving attention : an outburst of craft in contemporary art / Janis Jefferies -- Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it : reimagining craft identities using tactics of queer theory / Lacey Jane Roberts -- Men who make : the 'flow' of the amateur designer/maker / Andrew Jackson -- Crochet and the cosmos : an interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek.

Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.