Overview

This collection of 19 original essays argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The book's interdisciplinary and international array of authors consider how heritage and craft institutions, policies, practices and audiences encounter the constraints and opportunities of production, recognition and exhibition. Case studies spanning 125 years raise and address questions concerning authenticity and commodification, innovation and improvisation, diasporas and decolonization, global economies and national and professional identities. Authors also analyse mechanisms through which craft mobilises and has been harnessed by heritage processes and designations. Examples range from an Irish village at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the role of chronopolitics in contemporary Vietnamese pottery, to the invisibility of crochet within Swedish heritagisation processes and the application of game theory in a ceramics museum. With section one considering citizenship and identity, section two sustainability and section three dynamic craft in cultural institutions, Craft and Heritage interrogates how craft objects, makers and processes intersect with current heritage concerns and practices.

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Author:   Susan Surette (Concordia University, Canada) ,  Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.632kg
ISBN:  

9781350067585

ISBN 10:   135006758
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   18 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Susan Surette (Concordia University, Canada) Section 1: Place and Belonging Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) 1. Popular Heritage: 'Donegal Village' at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893, Janice Helland (Queen's University, Canada) 2. Sopon Bezirdjian, Craft, Heritage and Identity in Victorian Manchester, Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (University of Lincoln, UK) 3. Empire, Nation, and Biên Hòa Ceramics: Craft as a Site of Chronopolitical Reproduction, Thu-huong Nguyen-võ (UCLA, USA) 4. The Unicorn and the Ground-Hornbill: Heritage in the Keiskamma Art Project’s Intsikizi Tapestries, Brenda Schmahmann (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) 5. Latin-American and Latin-Canadian Textile Practices: Art, Activism and Diasporic Identity, Nuria de Grammont (Concordia University, Canada) and Maria Ezcurra (McGill University, Canada) Section 2: Sustainability and Resilience Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) 6. Blessed are the Cheese Makers: A Cultural History of Cheese in Early-Twentieth Century Ireland, Eleanor Flegg (writer, Ireland) 7. Piecing Heritage in Transition: The Lakota Sioux Star Quilt as a Symbol of Pan-Indigeneity, Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada) 8. A Cart Before a Horse: How the Subfield of Traditional Workmanship is Transforming the Field of Heritage Conservation, Giedre Jarulaitiene (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 9. Becoming Heritage Smart: Negotiating the Dilemma of Craft Practice in a Ceramic Center, Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) 10. Postcolonial and Global Heritage Narratives from Communal and Individual Perspectives in Dumbara Weaving – Sri Lanka, Chamithri Greru (UAL, UK) and Britta Kalkreuter (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) Section 3: Collections and Cultural Institutions Introduction, Susan Surette and Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) 11. Canadian Women China Painters: Artists and Amateurs, Rachel Gotlieb (Sheridan College, Canada) 12. Crafting Civic Engagement? How Heritage Lottery Funding Reframed Watts Gallery: Artists’ Village, Elaine Cheasley Paterson (Concordia University, Canada) 13. Craft as Performance in China’s Porcelain Heritage Capital, Maris Gillette (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 14. Craft Narratives from Heritage Sites in Buganda, Maureen Muwanga Senoga (Kyambogo University, Uganda) 15. Hunting for Lost Crafts: The Contemporary Value of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland, Juliette MacDonald (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)

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Elaine Cheasley Paterson is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Canada. Susan Surette is part-time Faculty at Concordia University, Canada and ceramic artist.

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