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Contemporary Crafts
Dr Imogen Racz
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Description for Contemporary Crafts
Hardcover. Explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing a diverse picture of artisanal work. This book ranges across urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Num Pages: 224 pages, 37 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ACVN; AFT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Contemporary Crafts explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today. The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
Contemporary Crafts explores craft practices in both North America and Britain, revealing an astonishingly rich and diverse picture of artisanal work today. The book ranges across both urban and rural crafts and analyses how the country/city dichotomy creates differing approaches, practices and objects. Analysed in the context of their environment and its localised history, crafted objects are shown to embody or critique particular urban/rural myths and traditions. Covering both traditional and cutting-edge crafts from the small-scale domestic to large outdoor works, Contemporary Crafts demonstrates how craftspeople today are responding to the changing creative contexts of culture and history.
Product Details
Publisher
Berg Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845203085
SKU
V9781845203085
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About Dr Imogen Racz
Dr Imogen Racz is Senior Lecturer at Coventry University, England, teaching contextual studies across the Fine and Applied Arts.
Reviews for Contemporary Crafts
The author's knowledge of contemporary and recent makers is impressive and readers are likely to come across objects which are both fascinating and unfamiliar. The Journal of William Morris