Contemporary Crafts

by Racz, Imogen

• ISBN13: 9781845203085
• ISBN10: 1845203089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

This book explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today. The text ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyzes how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analyzed in the context of their environment and its localized history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works,Contemporary Craftsdemonstrates how crafts-people today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.

Author Biography

Imogen Racz is course leader for MA Contemporary Crafts, and Contextual Studies Coordinator at Coventry University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Contemporary Crafts and Cultural Myths

Contemporary Arts and Crafts-makers in Rural England

The Artisan Tradition in Rural America

Critique and Embodiment in Rural England

Material, Space and Place in America

Urban Crafts in America

Urban Crafts in England

Crafts in the Environment (America)

Crafts in the Environment (England)

Afterword

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