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Manufractured
Skov, Mara Holt; Holt, Stephen Skov
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Description for Manufractured
Hardcover. Conspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using an array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen and caps. This title features an array of these art and design projects. Num Pages: 144 pages, 80 Colour images. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 966.
This volume reveals a major trend taking place today in visual and material culturethe radical appropriation of consumer goods as raw material for art- and object-making. A growing number of artists, craftspeople, and designers are realigning traditional craft practices with already manufactured objects and materials to marry the uniquely handmade with the uniformly mass-produced. Published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Manufactured offers an arresting look at the new crossover of craft, art, and design, and an exciting new cultural genre.
This volume reveals a major trend taking place today in visual and material culturethe radical appropriation of consumer goods as raw material for art- and object-making. A growing number of artists, craftspeople, and designers are realigning traditional craft practices with already manufactured objects and materials to marry the uniquely handmade with the uniformly mass-produced. Published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Manufactured offers an arresting look at the new crossover of craft, art, and design, and an exciting new cultural genre.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Chronicle Books United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9780811865098
SKU
V9780811865098
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99-15
About Skov, Mara Holt; Holt, Stephen Skov
Steven Skov Holt is an editor, curator, and distinguished professor at California College of the Arts. Mara Holt Skov is an independent curator. She and Steven live in San Francisco.
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