Extra/ordinary [electronic resource] : craft and contemporary art / edited by Maria Elena Buszek.
Overview: Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations....
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| Other title: | Extraordinary : craft and contemporary art. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Making and naming: the lexicon of studio craft / M. Anna Fariello
- Validity is in the eye of the beholder: mapping craft communities of practice / Dennis Stevens
- Super-objects : craft as an aesthetic position / Louise Mazanti
- Fabrication and encounter: when content is a verb / Paula Owen
- How the ordinary becomes extraordinary: the modern eye and the quilt as art form / Karin E. Peterson
- Wallpaper, the decorative, and contemporary installation art / Elissa Auther
- Handwork and hybrids : recasting the craft of letterpress printing / Betty Bright
- Elastic/expanding : contemporary conceptual ceramics / Jo Dahn
- Craftivist history / Betsy Greer
- Rebellious doilies and subversive stitches: writing a craftivist history / Kirsty Robertson
- Craft hard die free: radical curatorial strategies for craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch
- Loving attention: an outburst of craft in contemporary art / Janis Jefferies
- Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it: reimagining craft identities using tactics of queer theory / Lacey Jane Roberts
- Men who make: the "flow" of the amateur designer/maker / Andrew Jackson
- Crochet and the cosmos : an interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek.