Screen LibraryCraft is political /
"Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s...
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Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a political opposition to the Industrial Revolution, Craft is Political contends that current craft activities are politically saturated when perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous ideology and even Western government policy are examined. Case studies consider craft and design in Turkey and craft markets in New Zealand to Indigenous practitioners in Taiwan and Finnish craft education"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 269 pages : illustraions ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350122260 (hardback) : 1350122262 (hardback) 9781350122277 (ePub) 1350122270 (ePub) 9781350122284 (ePDF) 1350122289 (ePDF) |
| Index Number: | TT149 |
| CLC: | J50-05 |
| Call Number: | J50-05/C885 |
| Contents: |
Politics of tea furniture: invention of ryūrei style in late-nineteenth-century Japan / (Dis)playing politics: craft and the Caughnawaga exhibition, 1883 / Indigenous craft is political: making and remaking colonizer-colonized relations in Taiwan / Coexistence of craft and design in Turkey as two separate epistemes / Leisure and livelihood: a socioeconomic reading of craft in Australia and Eqypt / The politics of craft and working without skill: reconsidering craftsmanship and the community of practice / From 'making flowers' to imagining futures: Rohingya refugee women innovate a heritage craft / Liminality: the work of Monica Mercedes Martinez, PJ Anderson and Habiba El-Sayed / Jewellery is political: ethical jewellery practice / Networks of economic kinship in Aotearoa New Zealand craft markets / It goes without saying: craft talks politics / Crafts as the political: perspectives on crafts from design of the Global South / Chilean arpilleras: hand-stitched geographies and the politics of everyday life in Santiago's poblaciones / From essential skill to productive capital: perspectives on policies and practices of craft education in Finland / Sincerity not authenticity: crafts's political path out of a modernist trap / Bellwether: fingerprinting your woollies / Epilogue / |