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

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.

• | Author: Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Dec 24, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781784538248
• | ISBN-10: 1784538248