Contemporary Crafts explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of craft work today.
The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts, and examines how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localized history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions.
Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
This book explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today. The text ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyzes how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analyzed in the context of their environment and its localized history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how crafts-people today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
Recenzijos
The author's knowledge of contemporary and recent makers is impressive and readers are likely to come across objects which are both fascinating and unfamiliar. The Journal of William Morris
Daugiau informacijos
Also available in paperback, 9781845203092 GBP17.99 (December, 2008)
Introduction 1: Contemporary Crafts and Cultural Myths 2: Contemporary
Arts and Crafts-makers in Rural England 3: The Artisan Tradition in Rural
America 4: Critique and Embodiment in Rural England 5: Material, Space and
Place in America 6: Urban Crafts in America 7: Urban Crafts in England 8:
Crafts in the Environment (America) 9: Crafts in the Environment (England)
Afterword
Dr Imogen Racz is Senior Lecturer at Coventry University, England, teaching contextual studies across the Fine and Applied Arts.
