Objects and Meaning New Perspectives on Art and Craft,9780810857018

Objects and Meaning New Perspectives on Art and Craft

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ISBN13: 9780810857018
ISBN10: 0810857014
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-20
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
Part 1: Historical Contexts
1 Regarding the History of Objects
2(22)
M. Anna Fariello
2 Labels, Lingo, and Legacy: Crafts at a Crossroads
24(12)
Paula Owen
3 Critical Approaches: Fragments from an Evolution
36(20)
Patricia Malarcher
4 Paradise Lost? American Crafts' Pursuit of the Avant-Garde
56(12)
Rob Barnard
Part 2: Cultural Systems
5 Crafts Is Art: Tampering with Power
68(20)
John Perreault
6 Moving Beyond the Binary
88(18)
James H. Sanders
7 A Labor of Love
106(30)
Marcia Tucker
8 Affectivity and Entropy: Production Aesthetics in Contemporary Sculpture
136(12)
Johanna Drucker
Part 3: Theoretical Frames
9 "Reading" the Language of Objects
148(28)
M. Anna Fariello
10 Feminism, Crafts, and Knowledge
176(10)
Michele Hardy
11 Intimate Matters: Objects and Subjectivity
186(12)
Suzanne Ramljak
12 Workmanship: The Hand and Body As Perceptual Tools
198(18)
Polly Ullrich
13 Evolutionary Biology and Its Implications for Craft
216(15)
Bruce Metcalf
About the Contributors 231

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