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Allison Smith
Allison Smith
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Description for Allison Smith
Paperback. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, this title re-stages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity. Num Pages: 64 pages, 34 colour plates. BIC Classification: AFW; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Contemporary artist Allison Smith's diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, Smith re-stages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity. For the core of Allison Smith: Needle Work, the artist created contemporary revisions of European and American gas masks from World War I and World War II. Smith used art supplies found at local fabric and craft retail stores to ... Read more
Contemporary artist Allison Smith's diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performative aspects of history and material culture, Smith re-stages, refigures, and replays the role of traditional crafts in large-scale installations that reconsider the construction of collective memory and identity. For the core of Allison Smith: Needle Work, the artist created contemporary revisions of European and American gas masks from World War I and World War II. Smith used art supplies found at local fabric and craft retail stores to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Saint Louis, United States
ISBN
9780936316307
SKU
V9780936316307
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About Allison Smith
Allison Smith is assistant professor of sculpture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has appeared at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South Korea, and the P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island ... Read more
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