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Jennifer Horsman interviews rural women about their illiteracy, her theoretical analysis soundly argues that illiteracy is socially constructed. "What a marvellously incendiary book..." - Feminist Collections Shortlisted for the Laura Jamieson Prize, 1991 ... Read more

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his documents five centuries of Micmac material culture covering costume and decorative techniques, birchbark work, porcupine quillwork, work in wood, bone, stone and natural fibres and basketry. ... Read more

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The crafts have long occupied a marginal role in Modernist discourse. Neo Craft challenges this assumption with a wide selection of scholarly essays exploring the historical and contemporary positions that the crafts hold within visual culture. This volume is divided into five central themes, the last of which, Craft, the Senses and New Technologies, envisions an innovative future for the crafts. Drawing on their scholarship in the fields of craft history, art history, philosophy, museum studies, anthropology, fashion theory, history, women's studies and design, an international group of leading scholars, craftspeople and curators--including Grace Cochrane, Elizabeth Cumming, Tanya Harrod, Janice Helland, David Howard, David Howes, Love Jonsson, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, Bruce Metcalf, B. Lynne Milgram, Alla Myzelev, John Potvin, Mike Press and Larry Shiner--are brought together to contextualize the cultural, political and economic issues facing the crafts today. ... Read more

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interesting collection of college-level essays
This book is aimed at an academic audience, and definitely not at someone reading about crafts for fun. It isn't eye candy, and it reads like a collection of academic journal articles. The essays are a diverse bunch, but hold together well under the broad topic of the ways crafts are generally considered by the art world, craft practitioners, and broader society, and the roles that crafts play in societies. This attitude would be encapsulated by Howes's section (p216) on how the term "Basket Weaving 101" has come to be a derogatory term for an easy, introductory university course. Yet Howes uses this very process of basket weaving to describe both our own society's privileging of sight over touch, and the complex social relations, cosmology and pedagogy of the Desana Indians of the Colombian Amazon. I particularly liked Section One, with Metcalf's essay on "Replacing the myth of modernism" and Shiner's "The fate of craft". These would be of enormous interest to anyone studying, writing about, or practicing in a medium traditionally situated on the craft side of the art/craft binary.

I personally won't be adding this to my collection: a library loan was enough for me to get everything I wanted from the book, and I would suggest checking it out at the library first if possible.

Interesting & Relevant
This is a really nice collection of essays--not necessarily an "easy" read but well worth it.
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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1024 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tiny Abegweit hosts popular powwow. (All My Relations).(Abegweit First Nation on Lennox Island (PEI) host 3rd annual powwow)
Author: Heather Andrews Miller
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 21Issue: 3Page: S11(2)

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In 3 Works, photographer and critic Martha Rosler braids together three classic, newly relevant pieces tracing the ways in which photographyís aesthetic conventions and social practices fail or succeed in generating socially meaningful work--work that not only takes into account the political conditions within which it was produced and assumes social and political responsibility but also activates the viewer. The title three works are The Restoration of High Culture in Chile, a 1972 short fiction piece-cum-essay that examines the degrees of political anaesthesia and corruption a successful adaptation to high culture implies, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems,/ a 1974 photo work in which contemporary urban photographyís capacity to continue documentary photographyís historical work is questioned, and in, around, and afterthoughts, a 1981 critical essay exploring these questions more systematically and attempting to develop criteria to define contemporary photographic activities as meaningful social practice. ... Read more

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The first major work on this art form gives a comprehensive history of the craft from the period of European contact to the present. It covers materials, construction, ornamentation techniques and designs used in porcupine quill decoration, and it includes 500 black and white photographs and 30 colour plates. ... Read more

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Quillwork on Birch Bark
I had one years ago.
I used it until it fell apart.
I just had to get another.
Great Book!
Fantastic pictures!
I use it all the time when I teach quillwork.
If it cost twice as much, it would still be cheap.
A must have book.
R.E.O. ... Read more