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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
Contributor:
Bell, Nicholas R., editor.
Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.
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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