Contemporary crafts
By: Imogen Racz.
Publisher: Berg; Brand: Berg Publishers; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781845203085; 9781845203092
Subjects: Decorative arts -- United States -- HIstory -- 20th century; Decorative arts -- England -- HIstory -- 20th century
Description: Contemporary Crafts explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today. The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised 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 Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history

"Contemporary Crafts explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today.   The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised 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 Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary crafts and cultural myths; title: Contemporary arts and crafts makers in rural England; title: Artisan tradition in rural America: western Massachusetts; title: Case study; title: Critique and embodiment in rural England; title: Material, space and place in America; title: Urban crafts in America; title: Urban crafts in England; title: Crafts in the environment: Philadelphia case study; title: Crafts in the environment: Birmingham and Grizedale Forest; title: Case studies.