{"product_id":"the-new-politics-of-the-handmade-craft-art-and-design-hardcover","title":"The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthea Black\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNicole Burisch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. \u003ci\u003eThe New Politics of the Handmade\u003c\/i\u003e features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthea Black\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian artist, writer, and Assistant Professor in Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts. Her writing on contemporary art, craft and performance appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Craft Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExtra\/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaking Otherwise: Craft and Material Fluency in Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRita McKeough: WORKS\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education\u003c\/i\u003e and co-publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e. Black has exhibited work in Canada, the United States, Norway, and The Netherlands, and curated \u003ci\u003eSuper String\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Place: Queer Geographies on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePLEASURE CRAFT\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Burisch\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian critic and curator. She is based in Ottawa, where she is Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Her writings have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Craft Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUtopic Impulses: Essays in Contemporary Ceramics\u003c\/i\u003e, and periodicals including the \u003ci\u003eCahiers métiers d'art:: Craft Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTextile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. She was Managing Editor for\u003ci\u003e Desire\/Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. She has worked with organizations such as Centre des arts actuels Skol and M: ST Performative Art Festival, and was a 2014-2016 Core Fellow Critic-in-Residence with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 24, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713132695615,"sku":"9781788316552","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a287edbfe5a70c2a0d97d58faaf17302.webp?v=1765063573","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-new-politics-of-the-handmade-craft-art-and-design-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}