Oral history in the visual arts /
Partington, Matthew,editor.
Sandino, Linda,editor.
Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Oral history in and about art, craft and design / Linda Sandino -- pt. 1. Arts practices. The body event : voice and recorded histories in the creation of a sound installation based on the ideas of the work of artist John Latham / David Toop ; De mudder tongue : oral history work as an arts practice / Michael Mcmillan ; Private voices and public places : using oral histories in site-specific text-based art / Bettina Furnée and Ian Horton ; Chronicle from the field / Alexandra Handal ; History in the making : the use of talk in interdisciplinary collaborative craft practice / David Gates -- pt. 2. Histories. On quality : curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010) / Richard Cándida Smith ; Voices in art history / Liz Bruchet ; Speaking of craft : the Nanette L. Laitman documentation project for craft and decorative arts in America / Liza Kirwin ; The museum as a work of art : interviewing museum architects, engineers, and builders / Anne G. Ritchie ; Oral history work with Tibetan and Nepalese metalworkers, (1986-91) / John Clarke ; The death of small things : the Cork Craftsman's Guild (1973-84) / Eleanor Flegg -- pt. 3. Identities. The craft of conversation : oral history and lesbian feminist art practice / Ann Cvetkovich ; Crafty chats or whose craft is it anyway? Domestic discourse and making marginality matter / Jo Turney ; Feed-sack fashion in rural Appalachia : a social history of women's experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina (1929-56) / Natalya R. Buckel ; Covering up / Claire Wilcox ; From punk to the hijab : women's embodied dress as performative resistance, 1970s to the present / Shehnaz Suterwalla ; Becoming an artist : life histories and visual images / Maria Tamboukou and Gali Weiss ; Narratives in practice : the small and big stories of design / Arlene Oak -- Conclusion. Oral history and research ethics in the visual arts : current and future challenges / Matthew Partington.
Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.
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