Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.
The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft’s connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continentsThey claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
298 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2020-12-24 |
| ISBN |
9781784538248 |