Craft and heritage : intersections in critical studies and practice.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artisans--History.

Artisans.

Handicraft--History.

Handicraft.

Decorative arts--History.

Decorative arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Ava Academia, 2021.

Summary:

"This collection of 19 original essays argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The book's interdisciplinary and international array of authors consider how heritage and craft institutions, policies, practices and audiences encounter the constraints and opportunities of production, recognition and exhibition. Case studies spanning 125 years raise and address questions concerning authenticity and commodification, innovation and improvisation, diasporas and decolonization, global economies and national and professional identities. Authors also analyse mechanisms through which craft mobilises and has been harnessed by heritage processes and designations. Examples range from an Irish village at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the role of chronopolitics in contemporary Vietnamese pottery, to the invisibility of crochet within Swedish heritagisation processes and the application of game theory in a ceramics museum. With section one considering citizenship and identity, section two sustainability and section three dynamic craft in cultural institutions, Craft and Heritage interrogates how craft objects, makers and processes intersect with current heritage concerns and practices."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Susan Surette (Concordia University, Canada)

Section 1. Place and belonging introduction / Susan Surette and Elaine Paterson (Concordia University, Canada). 1. Sopon Bezirdjian, craft, heritage and identity in Victorian Manchester / Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (University of Lincoln, UK) ; 2. Popular heritage: the 'Irish village' at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 / Janice Helland (Queen's University, Canada) ; 3. Craft as a site of chronopolitical reproduction: empire, nation, and Bin̊ Hạ ceramics marginalization / Thu-huong Nguy?n-võ (UCLA, USA) ; 4. The unicorn and the ground-hornbill: heritage in the Keiskamma Art Project's Intsikizi tapestries / Brenda Schmahmann ( University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ; 5. Embroidering for change: activist needlework in Latin America / Nuria de Grammont (Concordia University, Canada) and Maria Ezcurra ( McGill University, Canada)

Section 2. Sustainability and resilience introduction / Susan Surette and Elaine Paterson (Concordia University, Canada). 6. Blessed are the cheese makers: the cultural context of Irish artisanal cheese / Eleanor Flegg (writer, Ireland) ; 7. Piecing critical craft and heritage: star quilts

meaning and makers / Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada) ; 8. A cart before a horse: how the subfield of traditional workmanship is transforming the field of heritage conservation / Giedre Jarulaitiene (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) ; 9. Becoming heritage smart

negotiating the dilemma of craft practice in a ceramic center / Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) ; 10. Postcolonial and global heritage narratives from communal and individual perspectives in Dumbara weaving

Sri Lanka / Chamithri Greru (UAL, UK) and Britta Kalkreuter (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)

Section 3: Collections and cultural institutions. Introduction / Susan Surette and Elaine Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) ; 11. Canadian women China painters: artists and amateurs / Rachel Gotlieb (Sheridan College, Canada) ; 12. Crafting civic engagement - How heritage lottery funding reframed Watts Gallery: artists' village / Elaine Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) ; 13. Jingdezhen industrial heritage and craft / Maris Gillette (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) ; 14. The centrality of material culture: craft narratives from heritage sites in Uganda / Maureen Muwanga Senoga (Kyambogo University, Uganda) ; 15. Hunting for lost crafts: the contemporary value of intangible cultural heritage in Scotland / Juliette MacDonald (Edinburgh College of Art, UK).

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350067615

135006761X

9781350067592

1350067598

9781350067608

1350067601

OCLC:

1238134209