Making and metaphor: A discussion of meaning in contemporary craft
ISBN: 9781772823622
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Arts and crafts movement -- Canada -- Congresses;

This multidisciplinary collection of eighteen essays was presented at the conference of the same name. It explores the complex and significant role of contemporary craft in society. The authors show how linguistic and feminist studies are tools for understanding craft. Historical analysis highlights how education, architecture, and industrial design have influenced craft products and our perceptions of them. Social and cultural anthropology show how craft expresses backgrounds of its makers. And ethnology and museum studies reveal the assumptions used in collecting, identifying and exhibiting craft.


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