The Journal of Modern Craft Volume 1 Issue 2

by Adamson, Glenn; Harrod, Tanya; Cooke, Jr., Edward S.

• ISBN13: 9781847882196
• ISBN10: 1847882196
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production-whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artifacts. The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations. It starts in the mid-nineteenth-century when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization and follows through to the present day when ideas confined to the 'applied arts' have become crucial across a huge range of cultural activities. Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. The journal also reviews and analyzes the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art, and other fields. The Journal of Modern Craft is the main scholarly voice on the subject of craft, conceived both as an idea and as a field of practice in its own right.

Author Biography

Glenn Adamson is at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Tanya Harrod is at Royal College of Art, London.

Edward S. Cooke is at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Dialog Pecha Cucha: Lace Catherine Harper Commemorative Textiles and Anglican Church History in Ondo

Review The Critical Space of Feminist Art: Andrea Zittel and WACK! at MOCA

Exhibition Review Traditional Skills, New Thinking: Stitching and Knitting for the Twenty-first Century

Exhibition Review Pricked: Extreme Embroidery

Exhibition Review Senga Nengudi

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Exhibition Review Meshed Messages: The Woven Photographs of Dinh Q. Le

Book Reviews Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador. and Andean Textile Traditions. Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum. Reviewed

The Modernist Textile: Europe and America 1890 - 1940 and Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia Reviewed

Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection Reviewed

Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society and First Aid for the Excavation of Archeological Textiles Reviewed

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