Padgett Jen Padgett, Adamson Glenn Adamson

Crafting America (eBook, PDF)

Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive range of skilled making in a variety of forms, from ceramics and wood to performance costume and community-based practice. In exploring the intertwining of craft and American experience, this volume reveals how artists leverage their craft to realize the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Accompanying an exhibition of the same title organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Crafting America features contributions from scholars that illuminate craft's relationship to ritual and memory, personal independence, abstraction, and Native American histories. The richly illustrated catalog section-with more than a hundred color images accompanied by lively commentary-presents a vivid picture of American craft over the past eight decades, offering fresh insights on the relationships between objects.

Building upon recent advances in craft scholarship and encouraging more inclusive narratives, Crafting America presents a bold statement on the vital role of craft within the broader context of American art and identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610757348
• Artikelnr.: 72329230

Autorenporträt

Glenn Adamson is senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. His publications include Thinking through Craft, The Craft Reader, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, The Invention of Craft, Art in the Making, and Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects. Jen Padgett is an assistant curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her research focuses on modern art from the 1900s to 1950s, exploring connections between media and intersections between fine art and design.

Inhaltsangabe

* Director’s Foreword
* Acknowledgments
* I. Topics
* Welcome to Craft — Jen Padgett
* Crafting Autonomy — Seph Rodney
* Embodying Indigenous Identity and Place: Centering Conversations on
Native American Art in the United States — Anya Montiel
* The Persistence of Abstraction: The Vessel, the Line and the Curve —
Jenni Sorkin
* On Reliquaries and Self-Evident Truths — Bernard L. Herman
* II. Catalog
* What is Craft?
* Declarations of Independence
* Life
* Liberty
* The Pursuit of Happiness
* Exhibition Checklist
* Selected Bibliography
* Illustration Credits
* Index