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Title Statement Amateur Craft [electronic resource] : History and Theory
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) Bloomsbury Publishing 2015
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Physical Description 1 online resource (193 p.)
General Note Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- History of a definition -- Method and structure -- 1 Surface -- Using enamel paint -- The philosophy of the surface -- What is needed for amateur surface intervention -- Paint-by-number kits: popularity, production and appropriation -- Intervening-by-number: appropriation and paint- by-number as art -- 2 Space -- Amateur space and everyday life -- Amateur labour -- The late-nineteenth-century 'professionalization' of amateur practice The malleability and invisibility of amateur tool organization -- Everything in its right place: security and possession -- Everything in its right place: efficiency/comfort -- Consuming one's own tool organization: amateur and retail space -- The aesthetics of the workstation -- Making suburbia productive: poultry keeping, 1870-1920 -- Chickens and eggs, a complicated story -- 3 Time -- Is free time free? -- Critique of the atemporal construction of amateur time -- Amateur time as displacement: 'the busman's holiday' -- Amateur railway modelling Experiences of time in amateur railway modelling -- From bodge to botch -- The busman's holiday manifesto -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary, etc Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is 'differential' a temporary moment of control over work that both departs from and informs our productive engagement with the world. Knott's discussion of the theoretical aspects of amateur craft practice is substantiated by historical case studies that cluster around the period 18501950. Looking back to the emergence of the modern amateur, he makes reference to contemporary art and design practice that harnesses or exploits amateur conditions of making. From Andy Warhol to Simon Starling, such artistic interest elucidates the mercurial qualities of amateur craft. Invaluable for students and researchers in art and design, contemporary craft, material culture and social history, Amateur Craft counters both the marginalisation and the glorification of amateur craft practice. It is richly illustrated with 41 images, 14 in colour, including 19th century ephemera and works of contemporary art.
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Additional Physical Form Entry Print version: Knott, Stephen Amateur Craft : History and Theory : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2015 ISBN 9781472577344
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*5058 $aThe malleability and invisibility of amateur tool organization -- Everything in its right place: security and possession -- Everything in its right place: efficiency/comfort -- Consuming one's own tool organization: amateur and retail space -- The aesthetics of the workstation -- Making suburbia productive: poultry keeping, 1870-1920 -- Chickens and eggs, a complicated story -- 3 Time -- Is free time free? -- Critique of the atemporal construction of amateur time -- Amateur time as displacement: 'the busman's holiday' -- Amateur railway modelling
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Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is 'differential' - a temporary moment of control over work that both departs from and informs our productive engagement with the world.Knott's discussion of the theoretical aspects of amateur craft practice is substantiated by historical case studies that cluster around the period 1850-1950. Looking back to the emergence of the modern amateur, he makes reference to contemporary art and design practice that harnesses or exploits amateur conditions of making. From Andy Warhol to Simon Starling, such artistic interest elucidates the mercurial qualities of amateur craft.Invaluable for students and researchers in art and design, contemporary craft, material culture and social history, Amateur Craft counters both the marginalisation and the glorification of amateur craft practice. It is richly illustrated with 41 images, 14 in colour, including 19th century ephemera and works of contemporary art.