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This is a unique look at a group of international artists who place craft at the heart of their practice, transforming everyday subjects and ordinary materials into works that are out of the ordinary. The book features unusual works including the ephemeral ice and chocolate jewellery of Naomi Filmer, the almost hidden installations by Yoshihiro Suda, thread and lace-work of Anne Wilson and found metal sculptures by Olu Amoda. These innovative artists show that craft is a fundamental concern across many disciplines, and this redirection of materials and traditional techniques and use of scale achieves extraordinary outcomes.
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Laurie Britton-Newell is a curator in the Contemporary Team at the V&A.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The V&A was built as a centre for teaching and learning. This exhibition brings Art and Craft together harmoniously in a way that neither superseded the other. Each genre serves to accentuate the beauty of the other and demonstrate that both have equal qualities of intellectual, analytical and interpretative processes. This book gives a taste of that exhibition and has excellent accompanying text by recognized writers. I would recommend this book to anyone who is researching art or craft, to those who love to look at beautiful objects and for those who love to learn.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Craft book that's a craft object
1 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback
I really bought the book because of the presentation. I wanted to own it as an object, and the excellent contents were only a bonus.
The book is A4 sized, and made from six individual signatures (group of folded pages), hand-sewn through the spine in red thread, with clear adhesive over the spine (so it's like a perfect-bound book, but without a wrap-around cover, so the way it's constructed is visible). As you read, the red stitching is visible peeking from the spine, and when you get to the center of each signature there's a gorgeous red slash of colour down the middle of the book. It has a simple card cover with the title die-cut out. The title is also printed on the spine (very clever, as a section of each letter has to be printed on the spine of each signature). The whole book looks like a hand-crafted super-sized fanzine, which I like a lot. However the pages are a non-fanzine nice weight and gloss.
The book covers a great range of craft artists; Olu Amoda, Anne Cattrell, Susan Collis, Naomi Filmer, Lu Shengzhong, Yoshihiro Suda, Anne Wilson, and Lizzie Finn. Finn's section is a little different, as she has made a stitched drawing inspired by each artist's practice, drawing on the ethos of 1970s how-to manuals. However all the other sections cover a bit about the artist's history, how they create, their studio, and their work. If you like any one of these artists I would definitely recommend buying the book. There's also a brilliant introductory essay by Glenn Adamson on "The spectacle of the everyday". All the images are full-colour, and they are large and plentiful.
This is the perfect book on cutting-edge craft-based art. I strongly recommend it.
The book is A4 sized, and made from six individual signatures (group of folded pages), hand-sewn through the spine in red thread, with clear adhesive over the spine (so it's like a perfect-bound book, but without a wrap-around cover, so the way it's constructed is visible). As you read, the red stitching is visible peeking from the spine, and when you get to the center of each signature there's a gorgeous red slash of colour down the middle of the book. It has a simple card cover with the title die-cut out. The title is also printed on the spine (very clever, as a section of each letter has to be printed on the spine of each signature). The whole book looks like a hand-crafted super-sized fanzine, which I like a lot. However the pages are a non-fanzine nice weight and gloss.
The book covers a great range of craft artists; Olu Amoda, Anne Cattrell, Susan Collis, Naomi Filmer, Lu Shengzhong, Yoshihiro Suda, Anne Wilson, and Lizzie Finn. Finn's section is a little different, as she has made a stitched drawing inspired by each artist's practice, drawing on the ethos of 1970s how-to manuals. However all the other sections cover a bit about the artist's history, how they create, their studio, and their work. If you like any one of these artists I would definitely recommend buying the book. There's also a brilliant introductory essay by Glenn Adamson on "The spectacle of the everyday". All the images are full-colour, and they are large and plentiful.
This is the perfect book on cutting-edge craft-based art. I strongly recommend it.
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