The New Politics of the Handmade - Craft, Art and Design

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.>

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• Authors: Anthea Black, Anthea Burisch Black, Nicole Burisch
• Assisted by: Anthea Black (Editor), Anthea (California College of the Arts Black (Editor), Black Anthea (Editor), Nicole Burisch (Editor), Nicole (National Gallery of Canada) Burisch (Editor), Burisch Nicole (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781784538248
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-824-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, Theory of art, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, ART / Criticism & Theory, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Handicrafts, decorative arts and crafts, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks