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 continents. They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.
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The New Politics of the Handmade
Craft, Art and Design
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The New Politics of the Handmade
Craft, Art and Design
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 From Craftivism to Craftwashing
- 2 Ethical fashion, craft and the new spirit of global capitalism
- 3 Selven O’keef Jarmon: Beading across geographies
- 4 The making of many hands: Artisanal production and neighbourhood redevelopment in contemporary socially engaged art
- 5 That looks like work: The total aesthetics of handcraft
- 6 Craft as property as liberalism as problem
- 7 Zahner Metals: Architectural fabrication and craft labour
- 8 Capitalizing on community: The makerspace phenomenon
- 9 Morehshin Allahyari: On Material Speculation
- 10 From molten plastic to polished mahogany: Bricolage and scarcity in 1990s Cuban art
- 11 Things needed made
- 12 Secret stash: Textiles, hoarding, collecting, accumulation and craft
- 13 Shinique Smith: Lines that bind
- 14 Margarita Cabrera: Landscapes of nepantla
- 15 The sovereign stitch: Rereading embroidery as a critical feminist decolonial text
- 16 Ursula Johnson: Weaving histories and Netukulimk in L’nuwelti’k (We Are Indian) and other works
- 17 ‘The black craftsman situation’: A critical conversation about race and craft
- Index
- Plates Section
- Copyright Page
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