Title & Author:

Material perceptions / Knut Astrup Bull and André Gali (eds.).

Publication:

Oslo, Norway : Norwegian Crafts ; Stuttgart : Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2018.

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Series:

Documents on contemporary crafts ; no. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Hege Henriksen -- Introduction / Knut Astrup Bull and André Gali -- Art as the other? Reflections on craft's and fine art's places in the aesthetics field / Søren Kjørup -- You in between: from aesthetic difference to aesthetic differing / Knut Astrup Bull -- A widening chromaticism: learning perception in the collective craftwork of the encounter / Sarah R. Gilbert -- From a system of objects to speculative realism / André Gali -- Craft and the allegorical impulse / Glenn Adamson -- An emotional perspective on everyday use / Anders Ljungberg -- The matter in hand / Martina Margetts -- Paying attention to material responses in logical ecologies / Hilde Methi.

Summary:

"There are many ways to perceive and interpret contemporary craft objects -- for instance, as works of representational art in ceramics, glass, textile, metal and wood, or as functional, handmade everyday objects. In Material perceptions, the contributors investigate the perception of contemporary crafts as a particular discourse and aesthetic vocabulary. According to the editors, contemporary crafts can benefit from being discussed as representations of reality that do not rely on the concept of autonomy. As such, neither do they rely on the conventional dualism between aesthetic objects and everyday things. The contributors investigate the possibility to perceive craft objects from perspectives that relate to the aesthetic tradition of materialism"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9783897905214 (paperback)
3897905213 (paperback)

Subject:

Handicraft Philosophy.
Decorative arts Philosophy.
Art and craft debate.
Arts décoratifs Philosophie.
Artisanat Philosophie.
Débats sur l'art et l'artisanat.

Added entries:

Bull, Knut Astrup, 1968- editor.
Gali, André, 1976- editor.
Kjørup, Søren, author.
Adamson, Glenn, author.
Margetts, Martina, author.
Documents on contemporary crafts ; no. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316579
Call No.: 316579
Copy: 1
Status: Available