{"product_id":"extraordinary-craft-and-contemporary-art-9780822347620","title":"ExtraOrdinary  Craft and Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtists, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eExtra\/Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e is not only the best anthology of recent writing on craft out there, it also delivers several assessments of the Do-It-Yourself movement, which is sorely in need of critical interpretation.”—\u003cb\u003eGlenn Adamson\u003c\/b\u003e, Victoria and Albert Museum\u003cbr\u003e“Maria Elena Buszek has compiled an anthology that matches the dynamism of a field in flux. As a museum curator responsible for developing exhibitions that examine contemporary craft, I actively seek tools that provide context for craft from within, across, and outside this arena’s historic borders. The essays compiled here provide access to diverse voices and approaches, filling a current void in scholarship and engaging craft from a range of perspectives and places in a shifting culturescape. Buszek’s anthology moves across discursive platforms to share fresh ways of thinking about craft in relationship to gender, domesticity, feminism, activism, and science. Here, ordinary craft is the focus of productive criticism rather than denied, broadening the frameworks for how we connect craft to meaning today.”—\u003cb\u003eNamita Gupta Wiggers\u003c\/b\u003e, Museum of Contemporary Craft\u003cbr\u003e“Maria Elena Buszek’s volume critically unravels assumptions about craft and pieces together new theories about contemporary handmaking that are at once vibrant, textured, and necessarily scrappy.”—\u003cb\u003eJulia Bryan-Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eExtra\/Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e begins to establish, with refreshing honesty, this thing that has become Craftivism. Time will tell if it sticks.” -- Jessica Hemmings * Surface Design Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] smart, sassy collection of essays . . . bound to be a new classic for both academics and craft artists.” -- Antonia Blair * Bust *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] stellar collection of interdisciplinary essayists. . . . [T]his collection features full color illustrations, figures and photographs which not only clarify the processes and products referenced in the accompanying articles but also makes the book a joy to read, enhancing as it does the visual performance of the text itself. The inclusion of the full-color documentation of artistic process as well as the art objects produced therefore honors the main premise of the text: that craft can and should be understood as a liminal form of culturally performative fine art.” -- Kristen Williams * Liminalities *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] timely response to contemporary art’s interest in craft, challenging the perception that artists choose media or their work with the mere wanton abandon of a child in front of a pick’n’mix counter. Instead, its various authors explore the complexity of art’s interaction with craft, making subtle note of those covering this terrain before.” -- Stephen Knott * Crafts *\u003cbr\u003e“Finally, a reason to put down the knitting needles. . . . Like a quiltmaker, Buszek has assembled a fine array of writers and topics. . . .” -- Anastasia Masurat * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e“This volume fills a void in the scholarship that examines the meaning and the diverse roles that craft plays in the discourse surrounding contemporary art and social, political and popular culture bringing together the voices of artists, curators, cultural thinkers and scholars. Together these authors have opened the dialogue allowing craft to have its own voice and its own meaning, no longer defined by or against fine art.” -- Angela Brayham * Visual Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra\/Ordinary \/ Mary Elena Buszek 1\u003cbr\u003e Redefining Craft: New Theory \u003cbr\u003e Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft \/ M. Anna Fariello 23\u003cbr\u003e Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice \/ Dennis Stevens 43\u003cbr\u003e Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position \/ Louise Mazanti 59\u003cbr\u003e Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb \/ Paula Owen 83\u003cbr\u003e Craft Show: In the Realm of \"Fine Arts\" \u003cbr\u003e How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form \/ Karin E. Peterson 99\u003cbr\u003e Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art \/ Elissa Auther 115\u003cbr\u003e Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing \/ Betty Bright 135\u003cbr\u003e Elastic\/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics \/ Jo Dahn 153\u003cbr\u003e Craftivism \u003cbr\u003e Craftivist History \/ Betsy Greer 175\u003cbr\u003e Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History \/ Kirsty Robertson 184\u003cbr\u003e Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism \/ Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204\u003cbr\u003e Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art \/ Janis Jefferies 222\u003cbr\u003e New Functions, New Frontiers \u003cbr\u003e Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory \/ Lacey Jane Roberts 243\u003cbr\u003e Men Who Make: The \"Flow\" of the Amateur Designer\/Maker \/ Andrew Jackson 260\u003cbr\u003e Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim \/ Maria Elena Buszek 276\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 291\u003cbr\u003e Index 295","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060822871,"sku":"9780822347620","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347620.jpg?v=1730494395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extraordinary-craft-and-contemporary-art-9780822347620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}