Extra/ordinary: craft and contemporary art

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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.

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

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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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham, NC
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (321 pages)

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ISBN:1283251795, 9781283251792, 9786613251794, 6613251798, 0822392879, 9780822392873
oclc:on1125535248
LC Classification:TT145
Dewey Decimal:745.5

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…