TY - GEN AU - Buszek, Maria Elena Ed. TI - Extra/ordinary craft and contemporary art SN - 9780822347620 U1 - 745.501 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Duke University Press N2 - CONTENTS vii List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments i Introduction: The Ordinary Made Extra/Ordinary Maria Elena Buszek REDEFINING CRAFT: NEW THEORY 23 Making and Naming: The Lexicon of Studio Craft M. Anna Fariello 43 Validity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Mapping Craft Communities of Practice Dennis Stevens 59 Super-Objects: Craft as an Aesthetic Position Louise Mazanti 83 Fabrication and Encounter: When Content Is a Verb Paula Owen CRAFT SHOW: IN THE REALM OF "FINE ARTS" 99 How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: The Modern Eye and the Quilt as Art Form Karin E. Peterson 115 Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Contemporary Installation Art Elissa Auther 135 Handwork and Hybrids: Recasting the Craft of Letterpress Printing Betty Bright 153 Elastic/Expanding: Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics Jo Dahn CRAFTIVISM 175 Craftivist History Betsy Greer 184 Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a Craftivist History Kirsty Robertson 204 Craft Hard Die Free: Radical Curatorial Strategies for Craftivism Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch 222 Loving Attention: An Outburst of Craft in Contemporary Art Janis Jefferies NEW FUNCTIONS, NEW FRONTIERS 243 Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It: Reimagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory Lacey Jane Roberts 260 Men Who Make: The "Flow" of the Amateur Designer/Maker Andrew Jackson 276 Crochet and the Cosmos: An Interview with Margaret Wertheim Maria Elena Buszek 291 Contributors 295 Index ER -