Craft Community And The Material Culture Of Place And Politics 19th 20th Century

Author : Janice Helland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351570848

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"Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century " by Janice Helland Pdf

Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather, the broader force of industrialization has redefined and continues to define the context of creation, deployment and use of craft objects. With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production, its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls? Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization, whether inspired by a calculated refutation of industrial sameness, an essential means to sustain a cultural community under threat, or a rejection of the imposed definitions by a dominant culture. The broader effects of urbanizing, imperial and globalizing projects shape the multiple contexts of interaction and resistance that can define craft ventures through place and time. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries, these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented.

Author : Johanna Amos,Lisa Binkley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350070400

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Stitching the Self by Johanna Amos,Lisa Binkley Pdf

The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities – social, political, and often non-conformist – are crafted. Bringing together the work of ten art and craft historians, this illustrated collection focuses on the interplay between craft and artistry, amateurism and professionalism, and re-evaluates ideas of gendered production between 1850 and the present. From quilting in settler Canada to the embroidery of suffragist banners and the needlework of the Bloomsbury Group, it reveals how needlework is a transformative process – one which is used to express political ideas, forge professional relationships, and document shifting identities. With a range of methodological approaches, including object-based, feminist, and historical analyses, Stitching the Self examines individual and communal involvement in a range of textile practices. Exploring how stitching shapes both self and world, the book recognizes the needle as a powerful tool in the fight for self-expression.

Author : Sarah Laurenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781501357992

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The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914 by Sarah Laurenson Pdf

During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established body of skilled jewellers who were able to access a range of materials from the country's varied natural landscape: precious gold and silver; sparkling crystals and colourful stones; freshwater pearls, shells and parts of rare animals. Following these materials on their journey from hill and shore, across the jeweller's bench and on to the bodies of wearers, this book challenges the persistent notion that the forces of industrialisation led to the decline of craft. It instead reveals a vivid picture of skilled producers who were driving new and revived areas of hand skill, and who were key to fostering a focused cultural engagement with the natural world – among both producers and consumers – through the things they made. By placing producers and their skill in cultural context, the book reveals how examining the materiality of even the smallest of objects can offer new and multifaceted insights into the wider transformations that marked British history during the long 19th century. The Material Landscapes of Scotland's Jewellery Craft 1780-1914 brings together a vast array of jewellery objects with a range of other sources – including paintings, engravings, newspaper reports, letters, inventories of big houses and small workshops, sketchbooks, novels, works of literary geology and early travel writings – to provide a detailed cultural history of jewellery production. In doing so, it sets out innovative methodologies for writing about the histories of craft production, the natural environment and the material world.

Author : Susan Surette,Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350067592

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Craft and Heritage by Susan Surette,Elaine Cheasley Paterson Pdf

This collection of 19 original essays argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The book's interdisciplinary and international array of authors consider how heritage and craft institutions, policies, practices and audiences encounter the constraints and opportunities of production, recognition and exhibition. Case studies spanning 125 years raise and address questions concerning authenticity and commodification, innovation and improvisation, diasporas and decolonization, global economies and national and professional identities. Authors also analyse mechanisms through which craft mobilises and has been harnessed by heritage processes and designations. Examples range from an Irish village at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the role of chronopolitics in contemporary Vietnamese pottery, to the invisibility of crochet within Swedish heritagisation processes and the application of game theory in a ceramics museum. With section one considering citizenship and identity, section two sustainability and section three dynamic craft in cultural institutions, Craft and Heritage interrogates how craft objects, makers and processes intersect with current heritage concerns and practices.

Author : Edward S. Cooke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691184739

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Global Objects by Edward S. Cooke Pdf

A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is not art. Avoiding traditional binaries such as East versus West and fine art versus decorative art, Edward Cooke looks at the production, consumption, and circulation of objects made from clay, fiber, wood, and nonferrous base metals. Carefully considering the materials and process of making, and connecting process to product and people, he demonstrates how objects act on those who look at, use, and acquire them. He reveals how objects retain aspects of their local fabrication while absorbing additional meanings in subtle and unexpected ways as they move through space and time. In emphasizing multiple centers of art production amid constantly changing contexts, Cooke moves beyond regional histories driven by geography, nation-state, time period, or medium. Beautifully illustrated, Global Objects traces the social lives of objects from creation to purchase, and from use to experienced meaning, charting exciting new directions in art history.

Author : Penny Sparke,Fiona Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317203292

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The Routledge Companion to Design Studies by Penny Sparke,Fiona Fisher Pdf

Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design - a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of sub-disciplines - has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more. The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design - theoretical, practice-related and historical - that has emerged over the last four decades. Comprised of forty-three newly-commissioned essays, the Companion is organized into the following six sections: Defining Design: Discipline, Process Defining Design: Objects, Spaces Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the essays offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.

Author : Beverly Lemire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521192569

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Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures by Beverly Lemire Pdf

Charts the rise of consumerism and the new cosmopolitan material cultures that took shape across the globe from 1500 to 1820.

Author : Mona Domosh,Michael Heffernan,Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1619 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781529738667

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The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography by Mona Domosh,Michael Heffernan,Charles W. J. Withers Pdf

Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.

Author : M. Anna Fariello,Paula Owen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810857014

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Objects and Meaning by M. Anna Fariello,Paula Owen Pdf

Throughout the 20th century, there were increasing numbers of artists who chose to work within a fine art aesthetic (i.e., expressive, communicative, innovative, unique) while simultaneously embracing qualities associated with craft production (i.e., intimacy, materiality, labor, ritual). At the periphery of their world loomed issues of status, gender, community, and economics. This fluid situation made for an exciting mix of ideas that helped perpetuate an ongoing debate within an art world no longer as monothematic as it appeared in print. Objects and Meaning expands upon a national conversation questioning how various academic disciplines and cultural institutions approach and assign meaning to artist-made objects in postmodern North America. Although most of the discourse since the mid 20th century revolved around the split between art and craft, the contributors to this collection of essays take a broader view, examining the historical, cultural, and theoretical perspectives that defined the parameters of that conversation. Their focus is on issues concerning works that appeared to 'cross over' from mainstream art to an amorphous and pluralistic aesthetic milieu that has yet to be defined. The essays collected for this volume, loosely organized into three groupings_Historical Contexts, Cultural Systems, and Theoretical Frames_contribute to a deeper understanding of the meaning of objects and how that meaning comes to be defined. Although the style of writing in this collection ranges from passionate conviction to cool observation with points of view from different professional backgrounds, each essay reflects original ideas introduced into the cultural dialogue during this period.

Author : Beverly Lemire,Laura Peers,Anne Whitelaw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780228013723

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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America by Beverly Lemire,Laura Peers,Anne Whitelaw Pdf

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.

Author : Jo Lauria,Steve Fenton
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 9780307346476

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Craft in America by Jo Lauria,Steve Fenton Pdf

Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft

Author : R. U. Sayce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494078783

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Primitive Arts and Crafts by R. U. Sayce Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Author : Helen Sheumaker
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000124201140

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Material Culture in America by Helen Sheumaker Pdf

"You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material culture, in which scholars explore the meaning of objects of a given society. This book is the first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture and what it reveals about life in the United States."--Jacket.

Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015004144369

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Material Culture Studies in America by Thomas J. Schlereth Pdf

Author : Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199341764

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The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture by Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter Pdf

"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--