Research Catalog

Title

Skin crafts : affect, violence and materiality in global contemporary art / Julia Skelly.

Author

Skelly, Julia

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

x, 211 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence. Artists from Mexico, Africa, China, the Netherlands and Indigenous artists based in the unceded territory known as Canada are examined in relation to one another to illuminate the connections and differences across their bodies of work. Skin Crafts interrogates ongoing material violence towards women and marginalized others, and demonstrates the power of contemporary art to force viewers and scholars into facing their ethical responsibilities as human beings."--Publisher description.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Human beings in art
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Handicraft in art
• Violence in art
• Skin in art
• Art, Modern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.

Contents

Narco-violence, Femicide, and Gore Capitalism: Teresa Margolles's Piercing Textile Works -- Facing Slavery and Survival: Lubaina Himid's Overpainted Ceramics -- "A Skin for a Skin": Sherry Farrell Racette's Textile Paintings -- Festering Wounds and Stitched Scars in Works by Rebecca Belmore and Nadia Myre -- Concrete and Caresses: The Case of Doris Salcedo.

Call Number

JQE 22-700

ISBN

• 1350122955
• 9781350122956

OCLC

1288136808

Author

Skelly, Julia, author.

Title

Skin crafts : affect, violence and materiality in global contemporary art / Julia Skelly.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781350122987

Research Call Number

JQE 22-700