Craft and Heritage

Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice

Susan Surette, Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Susan Surette, Elaine Cheasley Paterson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781350067585
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350067592
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Design History & Criticism

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.

INDEX

Boldface locators indicate figures and tables; locators followed by ‘n.’ indicate endnotes

Abdülaziz, Sultan here, here, here

Abdülhamid II, Sultan here, here, here

Abdülmecid here

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo here

academic community here

academic disciplines here, here

Acosta, Laura here, here, here–here, here, here

Perra Egoista (2011–2013) (Plate 11) here

Rosa Bear here

‘Street Operas’ here

Adams, Lily Osman here

agency here–here, here, here, here

Agnes Etherington Gallery here

Akçam, Taner here–here

Albert Fine Art Album (Bezirdjian) here, here, here–here

‘exotic’ items here–here

features here

and Grammar of Ornament here–here

‘Oriental’ patterns here

revival of heraldry here

and Victorian market here–here

Alfoldy, Sandra here, here

Allen, W. C. here

Allende, Salvador here

AmaXhosa communities, Intsikizi here–here

American Craft Council here, here, here

American Craftsmen’s Council here, here, here

American Indian Religious Freedom Act here

American National Endowment for the Arts here

Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum here, here, here–here, here

craft performer here, here

performances of craftsmanship (Plate 25) here, here

potter performance (Plate 26) here

tourists at here, here

Anderson, Benedict here

Anderson, Robert A. here–here

An Dương Vương, King here

Anne of Brittany here

Aparicion con Vida (slogan) here

Ardagh cheese here–here

Arevalo, J. M. here

Armenian community here–here, here

massacres and intervention here–here

Southern Cemetery here

‘symbolic framework’ here

Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) here

Armenian Ladies’ Association here, here

‘the Armenian ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents 
• Plates
• Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section I: Place and belonging
• Section II: Sustainability and resilience
• Section III: Collections and cultural institutions
• Index
• Imprint