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Craft and contemporary theory / edited by Sue Rowley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1997Description: xxvi, 198 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 186448313X
  • 9781864483130
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.1
LOC classification:
  • TT149 .C73 1997
  • NK1130 .C73 1997
Contents:
Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Theorising the crafts: new tricks of the trades -- 2. Craft, modernity and postmodernity -- 3. Wonder and despite: craft and design in museum history -- 4. Museum space: audience space -- 5. Keeping content: craft, history and curatorship -- 6. Words of love - folk heterotopias -- 7. 'There once lived.': craft and narrative traditions -- 8. Running stitch and running writing: thinking about process -- 9. The floating web -- 10. The golden bowl: Imants Tillers and the suspension of disbelief -- 11. Mechanical toys and metaphor: the representation of craft and craft makers in the cinema -- 12. Sweat: performance, New York, 1994 -- 13. Both ways: Yolngu and Ngarrindjeri weaving in Australian arts practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 700.1 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A136306B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Theorising the crafts: new tricks of the trades -- 2. Craft, modernity and postmodernity -- 3. Wonder and despite: craft and design in museum history -- 4. Museum space: audience space -- 5. Keeping content: craft, history and curatorship -- 6. Words of love - folk heterotopias -- 7. 'There once lived.': craft and narrative traditions -- 8. Running stitch and running writing: thinking about process -- 9. The floating web -- 10. The golden bowl: Imants Tillers and the suspension of disbelief -- 11. Mechanical toys and metaphor: the representation of craft and craft makers in the cinema -- 12. Sweat: performance, New York, 1994 -- 13. Both ways: Yolngu and Ngarrindjeri weaving in Australian arts practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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