Full Description
In this beautifully designed and illustrated volume, leading craft scholars, curators and artists come together to assess the post-War history and contemporary flourishing of craft in America. Their critical gaze encompasses craft practice by artists, professional makers, and amateurs; crafting as it takes place in the studio and in the domestic space, and as it is exhibited in museums and galleries; craft that uses materials and crafting in the digital arena, and critical issues confronting craft such as industry, education and digitization.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
1. (Dis) Organizing Principles
Nicholas R. Bell: Introduction
Glenn Adamson: Goodbye Craft
2. Aesthetic Transgressions
Elissa Auther: He is Survived by His Longtime Companion: Feeling in the Work of Josh Faught
Maria Buszek, Elaine Reichek, Sonya Clark, Michael Strand: Media, Process, History: Craft beyond Crafting
Jenni Sorkin: Craft-Like: The Illusion of Authenticity
3. The Politics of Display
Elizabeth McGoey: America at Home: Crafts and Craftsmanship in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair Shelter Exhibits
Ulysses Dietz: Taste, Money, Museums and the Subversion of Craft
Julie Muniz and Jennifer Scanlan: Institutionalized: Craft in the Museum
4. Enduring Conflicts
Maria Shevzov: Making an Impression: The Material Culture Scholarship and Craft of Historical Reenactors
Bibiana Obler: Craft as a Response to War
5. Education and Technology
Garth Johnson: A Hackerspace of One's Own: Curriculum and the Maker Movement
Neil Gershenfeld, Stuart Kestenbaum, Phyllis Klein: Digital Fabrication: Implications for Craft and Community
6. Negotiating Industry
Ezra Shales: The Politics of 'Ordinary Manufacture' in the Post-Industrial State
Sandra Alfoldy: Craft Goes to Disney!
Gabriel Craig: DIY Detroit
List of illustrations/photography credits
Index
