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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > General
Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows
of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New
Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who
critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting
economy. The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme
material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and
materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political
dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts
toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital
technologies; and craft's connections to race, cultural identity
and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents. They
claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for
understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of
our time.
Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of
craft, this ground-breaking volume analyses the philosophies,
politics and practicalities of collaborative craft work. The book
is accessibly organised into four sections covering the cooperation
and compromises required by the collaborative process; the
potential of recent technological advances for the field of craft;
the implications of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural
collaborations for authority and ownership; and the impact of
crafted collaborations on the institutions where we work, learn and
teach. With cutting-edge essays by established makers and artists
such as Allison Smith (US) and Brass Art (UK), curator Lesley
Millar, textile designer Trish Belford and distinguished thinker
Glenn Adamson, Collaborating Through Craft will be essential
reading for students, artists, makers, curators and scholars across
a number of fields.
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