Extra/ordinary
Subtitle: craft and contemporary art
By: edited by Maria Elena Buszek
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780822347392; 9780822347620
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making and naming : the lexicon of studio craft / M. Anna Fariello; title: Validity is in the eye of the beholder : mapping craft communities of practice / Dennis Stevens; title: Super-objects : craft as an aesthetic position / Louise Mazanti; title: Fabrication and encounter : when content is a verb / Paula Owen; title: How the ordinary becomes extraordinary : the modern eye and the quilt as art form / Karin E. Peterson; title: Wallpaper, the decorative, and contemporary installation art / Elissa Auther; title: Handwork and hybrids : recasting the craft of letterpress printing / Betty Bright; title: Elastic/expanding : contemporary conceptual ceramics / Jo Dahn; title: Craftivist history / Betsy Greer; title: Rebellious doilies and subversive stitches : writing a craftivist history / Kirsty Robertson; title: Craft hard die free : radical curatorial strategies for craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch; title: Loving attention : an outburst of craft in contemporary art / Janis Jefferies; title: Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it : reimagining craft identities using tactics of queer theory / Lacey Jane Roberts; title: Men who make : the "flow" of the amateur designer/maker / Andrew Jackson; title: Crochet and the cosmos : an interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek.