Extra/Ordinary
Craft and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2011
320 pages
978-0-8223-9287-3 (ISBN)
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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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Maria Elena Buszek is a critic, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of the book Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, also published by Duke University Press. She has written for magazines and journals including BUST, Art in America, Photography Quarterly, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1
Redefining Craft: New Theory
Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23
Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43
Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59
Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83
Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts"
How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99
Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115
Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135
Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153
Craftivism
Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175
Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184
Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204
Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222
New Functions, New Frontiers
Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243
Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260
Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276
Contributors 291
Index 295
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1
Redefining Craft: New Theory
Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23
Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43
Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59
Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83
Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts"
How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99
Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115
Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135
Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153
Craftivism
Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175
Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184
Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204
Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222
New Functions, New Frontiers
Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243
Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260
Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276
Contributors 291
Index 295
