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The New Politics of the Handmade : Craft, Art and Design, Paperback / softback Book

The New Politics of the Handmade : Craft, Art and Design Paperback / softback

Edited by Anthea (California College of the Arts, USA) Black, Nicole (National Gallery of Canada) Burisch

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Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism.

The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.

The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft’s connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents.

They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.

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