Oral history in the visual arts / edited by Linda Sandino and Matthew Partington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandino, Linda.

Partington, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

212 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.

Contents:

Introduction. Oral history in and about art, craft and design / Linda Sandino

pt. 1. Arts practices. The body event : voice and recorded histories in the creation of a sound installation based on the ideas of the work of artist John Latham / David Toop ; De mudder tongue : oral history work as an arts practice / Michael Mcmillan ; Private voices and public places : using oral histories in site-specific text-based art / Bettina Furnee and Ian Horton ; Chronicle from the field / Alexandra Handal ; History in the making : the use of talk in inter-disciplinary collaborative craft practice / David Gates

pt. 2. Histories. On quality : curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010) / Richard Candida Smith ; Voices in art history / Liz Bruchet ; Speaking of craft : the Nanette L. Laitman documentation project for craft and decorative arts in America / Liza Kirwin ; The museum as a work of art : interviewing museum architects, engineers, and builders / Anne Ritchie ; Oral history work with Tibetan and Nepalese metalworkers, (1986-1991) / John Clarke ; The death of small things : the Cork Craftsman's Guild (1973-1984) / Eleanor Flegg

pt. 3. Identities. The craft of conversation : oral history and lesbian feminist art practice / Ann Cvetkovich ; Crafty chats or whose craft is it anyway? Domestic discourse and making marginality matter / Jo Turney ; Feedsack fashion in rural Appalachia : a social history of women's experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina (1929-1956) / Natalya Buckel ; Covering up / Claire Wilcox ; From punk to the hijab : women's embodied dress as performative resistance, 1970s to the present / Shehnaz Suterwalla ; Becoming an artist : life histories and visual images / Maria Tamboukou and Gali Weiss ; Narratives in practice : the small and big stories of design / Arlene Oak

Conclusion. Oral history and research ethics in the visual arts : current and future challenges / Matthew Partington

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0857851985

9780857851987

OCLC:

816159909

Publisher Number:

99957955739