AUSTRALIAN ART CRAFT ABORIGINAL

Craft has always been the underdog in the visual arts world. Seen as an amateur occupation, it has been ignored or downplayed by critics, visual arts academics and researchers. Its popularity no doubt has contributed to this perception. These days craft is being taken more seriously by galleries and of course there’s a huge craft industry with fairs, books and supplies; finally a body of theoretical work is starting to develop around craft.

What is the relationship between art, craft and design? Where does craft sit in the museum? This innovative interdisciplinary collection explores cultural perceptions of craft and their impact on contemporary practice.

• xxvi, 198 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 23 cm. #241224
• 1. Theorising the crafts: new tricks of the trades / N. C. M. Brown
• 2. Craft, modernity and postmodernity / Terry Smith
• 3. Wonder and despite: craft and design in museum history / Helmut Lueckenhausen
• 4. Museum space: audience space / John Barrett-Lennard
• 5. Keeping content: craft, history and curatorship / Grace Cochrane
• 6. Words of love – folk heterotopias / Elizabeth Gertsakis
• 7. ‘There once lived …’: craft and narrative traditions / Sue Rowley
• 8. Running stitch and running writing: thinking about process / Anne Brennan
• 9. The floating web / Dorothy Jones
• 10. The golden bowl: Imants Tillers and the suspension of disbelief / Evelyn Juers
• 11. Mechanical toys and metaphor: the representation of craft and craft makers in the cinema / Annette Blonski
• 12. Sweat: performance, New York, 1994 / Anne Graham
• 13. Both ways: Yolngu and Ngarrindjeri weaving in Australian arts practice / Diana Wood Conroy, Ellen Trevorrow and Tom Trevorrow.