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Nation building : craft and contemporary American culture / edited by Nicholas R. Bell.
Fine Arts Library NK808.2 .N38 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Government document
- Conference Name:
- Nation Building (Symposium) (2012 : Smithsonian American Art Museum), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decorative arts--United States--History--21st century--Congresses.
- Decorative arts.
- Decorative arts--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Art and society--United States--History--21st century--Congresses.
- Art and society.
- Decorative arts--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Bloomsbury Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Nicholas R. Bell
- Goodbye craft / Glenn Adamson
- He is survived by his longtime companion : feeling in the work of Josh Faught / Elissa Auther
- Media, process, history : craft beyond crafting / Maria Elena Buszek, Sonya Clark, Elaine Reicheck, Michael J. Strand
- Craftlike : the illusion of authenticity / Jenni Sorkin
- America at home : crafts and craftsmanship in the shelter exhibits of the New York World's Fair, 1939 and 1940 / Elizabeth McGoey
- Taste, money, museums, and the subversion of craft / Ulysses Grant Dietz
- Institutionalized : craft in the museum / Julie M. Muñiz and Jennifer Scanlan
- Making an impression : the material culture scholarship and craft of historical military reenactors / Maria V. Shevzov
- Craft as a response to war / Bibiana Obler
- A hackerspace of one's own : curriculum and the maker movement / Garth Johnson
- Digital fabrication : implications for craft and community / Neil Gershenfeld, Stuart Kestenbaum, Phyllis D. Klein
- The politics of "ordinary manufacture" and the perils of self-serve craft / Ezra Shales
- Craft goes to Disney! / Sandry Alfoldy
- DIY Detroit / Gabriel Craig.
- Notes:
- Essays adapted from the two-day program of the same title as this volume held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, November 8 and 9, 2012, in conjunction with the Renwick Gallery's exhibition 40 under 40: Craft futures (July 12, 2012-February 3, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781474249508
- 1474249507
- 9781474249492
- 1474249493
- OCLC:
- 892514428
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