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Sloppy craft : postdisciplinarity and the crafts / edited by Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Susan Surette.

Contributor(s): Paterson, Elaine Cheasley [editor.] | Surette, Susan [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015Description: xxvii, 207 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472534880; 1472534883; 9781472529008; 1472529006.Subject(s): Handicraft -- Philosophy | Avant-garde (Aesthetics) | Amateurism | Ugliness in artDDC classification: 745.5
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' - craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness' in contemporary art and craft practices including painting, weaving, sewing and ceramics, consider the importance of traditional concepts of skill, and the implications of sloppiness for a new 21st century emphasis on inter- and postdisciplinarity, as well as for activist, performance, queer and Aboriginal practices.

In addition to critical essays, the book includes a 'conversation' section in which contemporary artists and practitioners discuss challenges and opportunities of 'sloppy craft' in their practice and teaching, and an afterword by Glenn Adamson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of illustrations (p. ix)
  • Notes on contributors (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xxiii)
  • Foreword: Sloppy craft-origins of a term Anne Wilson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (p. xxiv)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part 1 Explorations of postdisciplinarity through sloppy craft
  • 1 "Male trouble": Sewing, amateurism, and gender (p. 27)
  • 2 Sloppy craft as temporal drag in the work of Josh Faught (p. 45)
  • 3 An impression of déjà vu: Craft, the visual arts, and the need to get sloppy (p. 61)
  • Part 2 The implications of sloppy craft
  • 4 Doomed to failure (p. 79)
  • 5 The value of "sloppy craft": Creativity and community (p. 93)
  • 6 Why is sloppy and postdisciplinary craft significant and what are its historical precedents? (p. 109)
  • 7 From Maria Martinez to Kent Monkman: Performing sloppy craft in Native America (p. 125)
  • Part 3 Sloppy craft in practice and pedagogy: A conversation
  • 8 Sloppy craft and interdisciplinarity: The conversation (p. 151)
  • 9 Teaching ceramics in an interdisciplinary environment (p. 179)
  • 10 Weaving practice and pedagogy (p. 185)
  • 11 Sloppy craft: As related to ceramics (p. 193)
  • Postscript: Reprint of Glenn Adamson, "When Craft Gets Sloppy" Crafts 211 (March-April 2008) (p. 197)
  • Index (p. 201)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Elaine Cheasley Paterson is Associate Professor of Craft History at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Susan Surette is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art History and Critical Studies at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Canada, and a professional artist.