NeoCraft : modernity and the crafts / edited by Sandra Alfoldy.

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TextPublication details: Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, c2007.Description: xxii, 273 p. : ill., portr. ; 23 cmISBN:

091961647X
9780919616479

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745.4 ALF

Contents:

Cultural redundancy or the genre under threat -- Global craft -- Crafts and political economy -- Invention of tradition: craft and Utopian ideals -- Craft, the senses, and new technologies.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The crafts have long occupied a marginal role in Modernist discourse. Neo Craft challenges this assumption with a wide selection of scholarly essays exploring the historical and contemporary positions that the crafts hold within visual culture. This volume is divided into five central themes, the last of which, Craft, the Senses and New Technologies, envisions an innovative future for the crafts. Drawing on their scholarship in the fields of craft history, art history, philosophy, museum studies, anthropology, fashion theory, history, women's studies and design, an international group of leading scholars, craftspeople and curators--including Grace Cochrane, Elizabeth Cumming, Tanya Harrod, Janice Helland, David Howard, David Howes, Love Jönsson, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, Bruce Metcalf, B. Lynne Milgram, Alla Myzelev, John Potvin, Mike Press and Larry Shiner--are brought together to contextualize the cultural, political and economic issues facing the crafts today.

Bruce Metcalf, Larry Shiner, David Brian Howard, Grace Cochrane, John Potvin, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, B. Lynne Milgram, Janice Helland, Elizabeth Cumming, Alla Myzelev, David Howes, Tanya Harrod, Love Jönsson, Mike Press--Verso de la p. de t.

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Cultural redundancy or the genre under threat -- Global craft -- Crafts and political economy -- Invention of tradition: craft and Utopian ideals -- Craft, the senses, and new technologies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (p. vii)
Acknowledgements (p. viii)
Foreword (p. ix)
Introduction (p. xiv)
Section 1 Cultural Redundancy or The Genre Under Threat
Introduction (p. 3)
Chapter 1 Replacing the Myth of Modernism (p. 4)
Chapter 2 The Fate of Craft (p. 33)
Chapter 3 Making Space for Clay?: Ceramics, Regionalism, and Postmodernism in Regina, Saskatchewan (p. 47)
Section 2 Global Craft
Introduction (p. 61)
Chapter 4 Australia and New Zealand: Design and the Handmade (p. 63)
Chapter 5 Lost in Translation?: Giorgio Armani and the Textualities of Touch (p. 83)
Section 3 Crafts and Political Economy
Introduction (p. 101)
Chapter 6 Redressing the History of the Clothing Trade: Ready-made Apparel, Guilds, and Women Outworkers, c.1650-1800 (p. 102)
Chapter 7 Handmade Identity: Crafting Design in Ireland from Partition to the Troubles (p. 121)
Chapter 8 Entangled Technologies: Recrafting Social Practice in Pina Textile Production in the Central Philippines (p. 137)
Section 4 Invention of Tradition: Craft and Utopian Ideals
Introduction (p. 157)
Chapter 9 Making it Irish: The Politics of Embroidery in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland (p. 158)
Chapter 10 Pure Magic: The Power of Tradition in Scottish Arts and Crafts (p. 173)
Chapter 11 Ukrainian Craft Revival: From Craft to Avant-Garde, from "Folk" to National (p. 191)
Section 5 Craft, the Senses, and New Technologies
Introduction (p. 215)
Chapter 12 Sensory Basket Weaving 101 (p. 216)
Chapter 13 Otherwise Unobtainable: The Applied Arts and the Politics and Poetics of Digital Technology (p. 225)
Chapter 14 Rethinking Dichotomies: Crafts and the Digital (p. 240)
Chapter 15 Handmade Futures: The Emerging Role of Craft Knowledge in Our Digital Culture (p. 249)
Notes on Contributors (p. 267)
Index (p. 271)