Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today
- ISBN-10
- 1682261522
- ISBN-13
- 9781682261521
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-29
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Authors
- Glenn Adamson, Jen Padgett
Description
"A companion to the exhibition Crafting America curated at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, this publication explores the interdisciplinary contexts of the assembled works, featuring contributions from scholars with expertise in art history, American studies, folklore, and museum studies. Essay topics include the significance of craft within Native American histories and explorations of craft's relationship to ritual and memory, personal independence, and abstraction"--
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