Buszek Extra/Ordinary

Craft and Contemporary Art
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9287-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buszek, Maria Elena

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fariello, M. Anna

Stevens, Dennis

Mazanti, Louise

Owen, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kunsthandwerk und Kunstgewerbe
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1

Redefining Craft: New Theory

Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23

Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43

Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59

Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83

Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts"

How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99

Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115

Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135

Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153

Craftivism

Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175

Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184

Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204

Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222

New Functions, New Frontiers

Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243

Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260

Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276

Contributors 291

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Elena Buszek is a critic, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of the book Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, also published by Duke University Press. She has written for magazines and journals including BUST, Art in America, Photography Quarterly, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies.