Research Catalog

Title

Craft / edited by Tanya Harrod.

Publication

• London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

Harrod, Tanya

Description

238 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. A vital resource through which to understand the ways technologies, materials, techniques and tools are investigated through the lens of craft in contemporary art. Craft is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through "craft", materials, techniques and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labour and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers, and drawing on poetry, fiction, anthropology and sociology. Reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork and the politics of work all throw light on "craft" as process, product and ideology.
• "In recent times 'craft' has been employed stategically--to confront issues of gender or uneven global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes, some distinctly archaic, employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design. Reflections on new technologies, lost and found worlds of handwork and the politics of work all throw light on 'craft' as process, product and ideology."--back cover.

Series Statement

Documents of contemporary art

Uniform Title

• Craft (M.I.T. Press)
• Documents of contemporary art series

Subjects

• CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General
• Sociale aspecten
• Handwerk
• Handicraft > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• CRAFT AS A FLEXIBLE CATEGORY. What is architecture, 1919 / Walter Gropius -- What I believe, 1922 / W.R. Lethaby -- The division of the arts, 1962 / George Kubler -- Tactile sensibility, 1966 / Anni Albers -- Is anything done by hand?, 1968 / David Pye -- Something from nothing (Toward a definition of women's 'hobby art'), 1978 / Lucy R. Lippard -- Readymade or handmade?, 1997 / Joan Key -- The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology, 1992 / Alfred Gell -- Textile art--who are you?, 2001 / Sarat Maharaj -- Skill and deskilling in art after the readymade, 2007 / John Roberts -- Craft as supplemental, 2007 / Glenn Adamson -- Making is knowing, 2012 / Ulrich Lehmann -- Eleven (contradictory) propositions in response to the question: What is contemporary craft?, 2013 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- The art of medicine: Materiality and thread, 2017 / Roger Kneebone -- FOLK VERNACULAR MODERN. Letter to Alfred Schaer, 1924 / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The wheelwright's shop, 1924 / George Sturt -- Finished! replaced by a tin can, 1925 / Le Corbusier -- The storyteller, 1936 / Walter Benjamin -- All out to be folkelig, 1944 / Henry Heerup -- Mario Merz's cones, 2011 / Victoria Mitchell -- Sheila Hicks, 1969 / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The white bird, 1988 / John Berger -- Gee's Bend modern, 2003 / Richard Kalina -- In conversation with Laurie Britton Newell, 2007 / Lu Shengzhong -- Ana Lupas, 2017 / Juliet Bingham -- Nearing the moon to earth, 2010 / Alessandro Poli
• THROUGH THE MIRROR OF PRODUCTION. Division of labour and manufacture, 1854 / Karl Marx -- Art and industry, 1934 / Herbert Read -- The life of the artisan, 1946 / Ettore Sottsass -- In conversation with Jeanne Siegel, 1970 / Carl Andre -- Sparks from the plastic anvil: the craftsman in technology, 1973 / Reyner Banham -- The artisan, 1973 / Jean Baudrillard -- The assembly line, 1978 / Robert Linhart -- Zeroes + ones: digital women + the new technoculture, 1998 / Sadie Plant -- Needles, 2007 / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Mechanic mythologist: David Smith, 2008 / Robert Slifkin -- Quarrymen in Tuscany, 2009 / Giovanni Contini -- Labour made visible: Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki's Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit, 2015 / Hollyamber Kennedy -- Soil so good: Neil Brownsword's reinventions, 2017 / Ezra Shales -- FRAGILE DISTINCTIONS. My ceramics, 1939 / Lucio Fontana -- Black Mountain College and the crafts, 2005 / Edmund de Waal -- Subversive majesty: Peter Voulkos' Rocking Pot, 1992 / Garth Clark -- Statement, 1981 / Alison Britton -- Fear of clay, 1982 / John Perreault -- On furniture, 1986 / Donald Judd -- The hatred of the object, 1995 / Phyllida Barlow -- Classification an its consequences: the case of fibre art, 2002 / Elissa Auther -- Thoughts in a vat: Thinking through Annie Cattrell, 2004 / Cathy Gere -- Looks brilliant on paper but who exactly is going to make it?, 2006 / Mia Fineman -- Production notes, 2007 / Bridget Riley -- Handspring Puppet Company, 2009 / Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones -- In conversation with Okwui Enwezor, 2011 / El Anatsui -- Manifesto gesamtkunsthandwerk, 2011 / Karl Fritsch, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard -- Object lesson, 2012 / Ulrich Lehmann -- Seeing may be believing, 2012 / Rochelle Steiner -- Marker to market: Ruth Asawa reappraised, 2015 / Sarah Archer -- The plant: notes on Troy town art policy, 2016 / Aaron Angell -- The story behind the artwork, 2016 / Jessi Reaves
• RESISTANCE AND COUNTER-FABRICATION. Gandhi, cloth and self-government, 1989 / Susan S. Bean -- Pots, politics, paradise, 2000 / Kenneth E. Silver -- The undesignable, 2006 / Zhang Qing -- Magdalena Abakanowicz, 1994 / Babara Rose -- autoprogettazione?, or make it yourself?, 1974 / Enzo Mari -- Elaine Reichek's 'Native Intelligence', 1992 / Nancy Princenthal -- Thread of attachment, 2007 / Claire Pajaczowska -- Aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand, 2007 / bell hooks -- Martin Puryear: Artisan, 2008 / Michael Auping -- Knitting is..., 2008 / Sabrina Gschwandtner -- The toaster project, 2011 / Thomas Thwaites -- Scaling up: Theaster Gates, Jr, and his toolkit, 2013 / Ethan W. Lasser -- The complexity of a legacy, 2013 / Studio Formafantasma & Libby Sellers -- Live from disseminated, 2016 / Jenni Sorkin.

ISBN

• 9780262535830
• 0262535831
• 0854882669
• 9780854882663

LCCN

• 2018022607
• 15242740

OCLC

• on1029882917
• SCSB-9282040

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library