00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862137351 Buklod 20181025100642.0 g||| | || || ta 181025s2007 nscac rb |001 0|eng d 9780919616479 (iLib)UPBAG-00031871253 DLC BAG rda eng NK 792 N46 2007 NeoCraft modernity and the crafts edited by Sandra Alfoldy. Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design [2007] xxii, 273 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities research Council of Canada."Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Section one: Cultural redundancy or the genre under threat: Replacing the myth of modernism / Bruce Metcalf -- The fate of craft / Larry Shiner -- Making space for clay? : ceramics, regionalism, and postmodernism in Regina, Saskatchewan / David Brian Howard -- Section two: Global craft: Australia and New Zealand: design and the handmade / Grace Cochrane -- Lost in translation?: Giorgio Armani and the textualities of touch / John Potvin -- Section three: Crafts and political economy: Redressing the history of the clothing trade: ready-made apparel, guilds, and women outworkers, c.1650-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Handmade identity: crafting design in Ireland from partition to the troubles / Joseph McBrinn -- Entangled technologies: recrafting social practice in pina textile production in the central Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram -- Section four: Invention of tradition: craft and Utopian ideals: Making it Irish: the politics of embroidery in late nineteenth-century Ireland / Janice Helland -- Pure magic: the power of tradition in Scottish arts and crafts / Elizabeth Cumming -- Ukranian craft revival: from craft to avant-garde, from "folk" to national / Alla Myzelev -- Section five: Craft, the senses, and new technologies: Sensory basket weaving / David Howes -- Otherwise unobtainable: the applied arts and the politics and poetics of digital technology / Tanya Harrod -- Rethinking dichotomies: crafts and the digital / Love Jönsson -- Handmade futures: the emerging role of craft knowledge in our digital culture / Mike Press. "Neocraft...unites an international, interdisciplinary range of writers who are contextualizing modernity and the crafts. Drawing upon writings in the fields of craft history, art history, philosophy, museum studies, anthropology, fashion theory, history, women's studies, and design, this book explores in detail the shifting and influential cultural position of the crafts...Leading scholars, craftspeople, and curators explore the reality of craft practice that engages with the modernizing world."--Publisher Decorative arts Philosophy. Design Philosophy. Teleology. Modernism (Art). Culture in art. Alfoldy, Sandra 1969- editor. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Press. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN NK 792 N46 2007 Book