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A Show of Hands : Crafting Concepts in Contemporary Art / ed. by Ileana Parvu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Ileana Parvu, Haute école d'art et de design HEAD, Genf, Schweiz
- Summary:
- Im Gegensatz zu der von US-amerikanischen Künstler*innen in den späten 1960er Jahren propagierten Trennung von Konzeption und Ausführung nimmt dieses Buch eine Neubewertung der Konzeptkunst vor, indem sie sie aus der Perspektive des Handwerks betrachtet. Der Fokus wird vom westlichen Kunstsystem auf dessen Ränder gerichtet, wo Kunstschaffende aus kolonialen Kontexten zu Handwerker*innen herabgesetzt wurden unter dem Vorwand, dass sie den Status von Künstler*innen nie erreichen könnten. Das Buch zeigt, dass die mit handwerklichen Mitteln ausgeführte künstlerische Arbeit in eine konzeptionelle Praxis münden kann. Die Beiträge ermöglichen ein neues Verständnis verschiedener Positionen innerhalb der Konzeptkunst, die so als anhaltende Reflexion über die Bedeutung von Handarbeit, Herstellung und (Kunst)Handwerk erscheint.
- In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. The emphasis on craft shifts the focus from the Western art system to its margins, where creators were relegated to the status of mere artisans in the colonial context, on the pretext that attaining that of artists was beyond their reach. From this peripheral point of view, the book shows that work carried out with artisanal means can lead to conceptual practice. Moreover, this shift in perspective provides a new understanding of several positions within conceptualism, which ultimately appears as an ongoing reflection on the role of the hands, making, and craft.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- Making Concepts
- I SKILLS
- Flesh and Bones
- Craftsmanship from the World Before
- II MATERIALS
- Lawrence Weiner’s Material Actions
- It-Narratives for the Twenty-First Century
- III THE OTHER AS ARTISAN
- Sensitive Threads
- The Defiance of the Artisanal and the Unmaking of Wax-Print Textiles in Contemporary Art
- IV THE MAKING OF CONCEPTUAL ART
- Carpenter of the Predicate
- Collaborators and Fabricators
- Between the Conceptual and Artisanal in South African Art
- Authors
- Credits
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Dec 2024)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783111018737
- 3111018733
- OCLC:
- 1507699773
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