Craft and contemporary theory /
edited by Sue Rowley.
- xxvi, 198 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.
Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theorising the crafts: new tricks of the trades -- Craft, modernity and postmodernity -- Wonder and despite: craft and design in museum history -- Museum space: audience space -- Keeping content: craft, history and curatorship -- Words of love - folk heterotopias -- 'There once lived.': craft and narrative traditions -- Running stitch and running writing: thinking about process -- The floating web -- The golden bowl: Imants Tillers and the suspension of disbelief -- Mechanical toys and metaphor: the representation of craft and craft makers in the cinema -- Sweat: performance, New York, 1994 -- Both ways: Yolngu and Ngarrindjeri weaving in Australian arts practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.