Amateur craft : history and theory / Stephen Knott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knott, Stephen (Stephen D.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft--Philosophy.

Handicraft.

Handicraft--History.

Hobbies--Social aspects.

Hobbies.

Hobbies--History.

Amateurism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is 'differential' a temporary moment of control over work that both departs from and informs our productive engagement with the world. Knott's discussion of the theoretical aspects of amateur craft prac.

Contents:

Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; History of a definition; Method and structure; 1 Surface; Using enamel paint; The philosophy of the surface; What is needed for amateur surface intervention; Paint-by-number kits: popularity, production and appropriation; Intervening-by-number: appropriation and paint- by-number as art; 2 Space; Amateur space and everyday life; Amateur labour; The late-nineteenth-century 'professionalization' of amateur practice; The malleability and invisibility of amateur tool organization.

Everything in its right place: security and possessionEverything in its rightplace: efficiency/comfort; Consuming one's own tool organization: amateur and retail space; The aesthetics of the workstation; Making suburbia productive: poultry keeping, 1870-1920; Chickens and eggs, a complicated story; 3 Time; Is free time free?; Critique of the atemporal construction of amateur time; Amateur time as displacement: 'the busman's holiday'; Amateur railway modelling; Experiences of time in amateur railway modelling; From bodge to botch; The busman's holiday manifesto; NOTES; INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781472577375

147257737X

9781472577368

1472577361

OCLC:

1201426050