Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects - Hardcover

Skov Holt, Steven; Holt Skov, Mara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811865096 ISBN 13: 9780811865098

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

Conspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture today. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using a vast array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen caps, and more. By deploying techniques normally associated with the world of craft (such as sewing, weaving, crochet, collage, assemblage, and so forth) upon these synthetic items, they create something wholly new, something that combines the uniform and mass-produced with the unique and handmade. Their work provides an exciting new model for creativity, a way of showing how innovation, invention, and beauty can emerge from even the most familiar, ordinary, and seemingly banal products.A wide array of these exciting new art and design projects are presented here, with insightful commentary on the trends and cultural phenomenon that inform this process, in a volume published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland in 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0811865096
• ISBN 13: 9780811865098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144