Craft is political / edited by D Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, D (D E. L.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft--Political aspects.

Handicraft.

Decorative arts--Political aspects.

Decorative arts.

Handicraft industries--Social aspects.

Handicraft industries.

Material culture.

Artisans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a political opposition to the Industrial Revolution, Craft is Political contends that current craft activities are politically saturated when perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous ideology and even Western government policy are examined. Case studies consider craft and design in Turkey and craft markets in New Zealand to Indigenous practitioners in Taiwan and Finnish craft education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Re-crafting an unsettled world

Craft and the Sustainment

Craft as change agent

Craft as care

Overview of sections

The essays: legacy, practice and world view

Notes

Part 1: Craft Legacy

Chapter 1: Politics of tea furniture: Invention of ryuˉrei style in late-nineteenth-century Japan

Introduction

Kyoto and tea culture in hard times

Ryūrei style at the Kyoto Exhibition

Aftermath: The way of tea as Japanese philosophy

Conclusion

Chapter 2: (Dis)playing politics: Craft and the Caughnawaga Exhibition, 1883

The politics of the Caughnawaga Exhibition

Kahnawà:ke land survey

Louise Kon8aseti Laronde's silk patchwork quilt

Curating politics

Chapter 3: Indigenous craft is political: Making and remaking colonizer-colonized relations in Taiwan

Constructive ambiguities: 'indigenous' and 'crafts'

Colonizing crafts in Taiwan: Japanese, nationalist and multiculturalist agendas

Craft articulations

Chapter 4: Coexistence of craft and design in Turkey as two separate epistemes

Craft and design: vernacular versus industrial

Turkey's craft history

Craft and design in Turkey: product differentiation

A dialogical and expert-expert learning bond

An emotional bond

Chapter 5: Leisure and livelihood: A Socioeconomic reading of craft in Australia and Egypt

The smallness of craft

Sites of craft: the Tasmanian Craft Fair and Islamic Cairo

Craftworker identity

Craft socioeconomics: Australia

Craft socioeconomics: Egypt

NGOs and craft

Part 2: Craft Practice

Chapter 6: The politics of craft and working without skill: Reconsidering craftsmanship and the community of practice.

Craftsmanship and the community of practice

Working without skill in Oaxaca

Chapter 7: From 'making flowers' to imagining futures: Rohingya refugee women innovate a heritage craft

Postcolonial contradictions and humanitarian work

Rohingya and their current cultural condition

Rohingya women: voiceless among the voiceless

'Making flowers': embroidery in Rohingya culture

The tapestries

Chapter 8: Liminality: The work of Monica Mercedes Martinez, PJ Anderson and Habiba El-Sayed

Monica Mercedes Martinez

PJ Anderson

Habiba El-Sayed

Chapter 9: Jewellery is political: Ethical jewellery practice

Political messages in jewellery

Jewellery materials

Jewellery and fashion

Chapter 10: Networks of economic kinship in Aotearoa New Zealand craft markets

Setting the scene for craft markets and kinship ties

Networks

Craft markets in Aotearoa New Zealand

Networks of encounter (spaces of production, distribution and consumption)

Economic kinship - online

Chapter 11: It goes without saying: Craft talks politics

Clay

Glass

Metal

Wood

Textiles

Part 3: Craft World View

Chapter 12: Crafts as the political: Perspectives on crafts from design of the Global South

Crafts and Pachamama

Political crafts as chakana

Alternate context

EcoSophy and feel-think-design-do

Revisiting crafts before crafts came to be

Re-articulating worlds from the perspective of Andean philosophy

For the vindication of the praxis of crafts as politics

Chapter 13: Chilean arpilleras: Hand-stitched geographies and the politics of everyday life in Santiago's poblaciones

Economic violence and grassroots organization.

Arpilleras and the politics of social reproduction

The afterlives of arpilleras

Chapter 14: From essential skill to productive capital: Perspectives on policies and practices of craft education in Finland

Craft education in changing political climate

Crafts in Finland's twenty-first century cultural policy

Chapter 15: Sincerity not authenticity: Craft's political path out of a modernist trap

Ruskin Morris: authentic object, authentic life

Trilling: authenticity ⇄ sincerity

Authentic craft? Sincere craft!

The politics of it all

Chapter 16: Bellwether: Fingerprinting your woollies

Bellwether/belle weather/Lovely Weather

Knowledge is only a rumour until it lives in the muscle7

Three bags full

Making it visible

A line into the future long enough to walk on10

To spin a revolution

Fingerprint or footprint

Epilogue

Author biographies

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781350122291

1350122297

9781350122284

1350122289

9781350122277

1350122270

OCLC:

1238133979