Informationen zum Autor Maria Elena Buszek is a critic, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of the book Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, also published by Duke University Press. She has written for magazines and journals including BUST, Art in America, Photography Quarterly, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. Klappentext Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists who incorporate craft into their work, few art critics or scholars have explored the historical or conceptual significance of craft in contemporary art. Extra/Ordinary takes up that task. Reflecting on what craft has come to mean in recent decades, artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine-art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting, or craftivism. Some contributors describe generational and institutional changes under way, while others signal new directions for scholarship, considering craft in relation to queer theory, masculinity, and science. Encompassing quilts, ceramics, letterpress books, wallpaper, and textiles, and moving from well-known museums to home workshops and political protests, Extra/Ordinary is an eclectic introduction to the craft culture referenced and celebrated by artists promoting new ways of thinking about the role of craft in contemporary art. Contributors. Elissa Auther, Anthea Black, Betty Bright, Nicole Burisch, Maria Elena Buszek, Jo Dahn, M. Anna Fariello, Betsy Greer, Andrew Jackson, Janis Jefferies, Louise Mazanti, Paula Owen, Karin E. Peterson, Lacey Jane Roberts, Kirsty Robertson, Dennis Stevens, Margaret Wertheim Zusammenfassung Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1 Redefining Craft: New Theory Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23 Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43 Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59 Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83 Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts" How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99 Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115 Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135 Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153 Craftivism Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175 Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184 Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204 Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222 New Functions, New Frontiers Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243 Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260 Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276 Contributors 291 Index 295...

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Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists who incorporate craft into their work, few art critics or scholars have explored the historical or conceptual significance of craft in contemporary art. Extra/Ordinary takes up that task. Reflecting on what craft has come to mean in recent decades, artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine-art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting, or craftivism. Some contributors describe generational and institutional changes under way, while others signal new directions for scholarship, considering craft in relation to queer theory, masculinity, and science. Encompassing quilts, ceramics, letterpress books, wallpaper, and textiles, and moving from well-known museums to home workshops and political protests, Extra/Ordinary is an eclectic introduction to the “craft culture” referenced and celebrated by artists promoting new ways of thinking about the role of craft in contemporary art. Contributors. Elissa Auther, Anthea Black, Betty Bright, Nicole Burisch, Maria Elena Buszek, Jo Dahn, M. Anna Fariello, Betsy Greer, Andrew Jackson, Janis Jefferies, Louise Mazanti, Paula Owen, Karin E. Peterson, Lacey Jane Roberts, Kirsty Robertson, Dennis Stevens, Margaret Wertheim

Zusammenfassung
Artists, critics, curators, and scholars develop theories of craft in relation to art, chronicle how fine art institutions understand and exhibit craft media, and offer accounts of activist crafting.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary / Mary Elena Buszek 1
Redefining Craft: New Theory
Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft / M. Anna Fariello 23
Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice / Dennis Stevens 43
Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position / Louise Mazanti 59
Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb / Paula Owen 83
Craft Show: In the Realm of "Fine Arts"
How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form / Karin E. Peterson 99
Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art / Elissa Auther 115
Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing / Betty Bright 135
Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn 153
Craftivism
Craftivist History / Betsy Greer 175
Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History / Kirsty Robertson 184
Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 204
Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art / Janis Jefferies 222
New Functions, New Frontiers
Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory / Lacey Jane Roberts 243
Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker / Andrew Jackson 260
Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim / Maria Elena Buszek 276
Contributors 291
Index 295