Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects

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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 ...
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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780811865098
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
  • Publication date: 11/10/2008
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 8.70 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet 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.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 8

Introduction Art, Craft, and Design Realigned 11

From Readymade to Manufractured: Some Assembly Required 15

Form Follows Dissection: Regis Mayot 46

Form Follows Fabrication: Cat Chow 56

Form Follows Accretion: Jason Rogenes 66

Form Follows Fusion: Sonya Clark 76

Form Follows Provocation: Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym 86

Form Follows Subversion: Harriete Estel Berman 96

Form Follows Infection: Laura Splan 106

Form Follows Variation: Livia Marin 116

Form Follows Manipulation: Hrafnhildur Arnardottir 126

Form Follows Ornamentation: Marcel Wanders 136

Form Follows Perception: Devorah Sperber 146

Credits and Extended Captions 157

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