Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts

252 Pages·2015·10.57 MB·English

by  Paterson

Sloppy Craft
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Sloppy Craft
Postdisciplinarity and
the Crafts
Edited by
Elaine Cheasley Paterson and
Susan Surette
Bloomsbury Academic
An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Bloomsbury Academic
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-3488-0
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sloppy craft : postdisciplinarity and the crafts / edited by Elaine Cheasley Paterson and
Susan Surette.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4725-3488-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4725-2900-8 (pbk.) 1. Handicraft--
Philosophy. 2. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) 3. Amateurism. 4. Ugliness in art. I. Paterson, Elaine
Cheasley. II. Surette, Susan.
TT14.S66 2015
745.5--dc23
2014049237
Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN
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To all makers and teachers using craft processes,
concepts, tools, or materials, as well as those who value
and talk about them.
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
Notes on contributors xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Foreword: Sloppy craft—origins of a term
Anne Wilson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago xxiv
Introduction Elaine C. Paterson and Susan Surette 1
Part One Explorations of postdisciplinarity through
sloppy craft
1 “Male trouble”: Sewing, amateurism, and gender
Joseph McBrinn 27
2 Sloppy craft as temporal drag in the work of Josh
Faught Elissa Auther and Elyse Speaks 45
3 An impression of déjà vu: Craft, the visual arts, and the
need to get sloppy Denis Longchamps 61
Part Two The implications of sloppy craft
4 Doomed to failure Sandra Alfoldy 79
5 The value of “sloppy craft”: Creativity and community
Juliette MacDonald 93
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viii CONTENTS
6 Why is sloppy and postdisciplinary craft significant and
what are its historical precedents? Gloria Hickey 109
7 From Maria Martinez to Kent Monkman: Performing
sloppy craft in Native America Elizabeth Kalbfleisch 125
Part Three Sloppy craft in practice and pedagogy:
A conversation
8 Sloppy craft and interdisciplinarity: The conversation
Conor Wilson, Jean-Pierre Larocque, Kelly Thompson,
and Peter Wilson 151
9 Teaching ceramics in an interdisciplinary environment
Eliza Au 179
10 Weaving practice and pedagogy Kelly Thompson 185
11 Sloppy craft: As related to ceramics Peter Wilson 193
Postscript Reprint of Glenn Adamson, “When Craft Gets
Sloppy” Crafts 211 (March–April 2008) 197
Index 201
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
1.1 Men of Cloth exhibition, Manchester, 2010, installation view.
Courtesy of Stuart Royse. 31
1.2 Fernando Marques Penteado, Prison Speech project, 2003. This panel,
Danny Brooker, 2003, dust twill cotton linen. © Crafts Council. 32
1.3 Boys Who Sew exhibition entrance, February 5– April 4, 2004, front
gallery. © Crafts Council. 33
2.1 Josh Faught, Longtime Companion, 2012, installation view, Lisa
Cooley Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Lisa Cooley
Gallery, New York. 47
2.2 Josh Faught, Calendar, 2012, handwoven hemp, TV dinner brooches,
cards from Mom and Grandmother, wind chimes, straw hat with lace,
scrapbooking letters, felt, disaster blanket and toilet paper on garden
trellis, 96 x 48 x 3 in. Courtesy of the artist and Lisa Cooley Gallery,
New York. 48
3.1 François Houdé, Bol Brisé, 1982, blown and cast glass. Courtesy of
the Houdé family. 65
3.2 Lorraine Basque, 1982, La mort de Marat, d’après David, porcelain,
glazes, oxides, paint, 30 x 18 cm. Photo: Michel Legeais. Courtesy of
the artist. 68
4.1 Nicholas Alfoldy choosing a Martha Stewart craft project. Photo
courtesy of Sandra Alfoldy. 83
4.2 Beginning “Fanned-Out Faces.” Martha Stewart craft project by
Nicholas Alfoldy. Photo courtesy of Sandra Alfoldy. 84
4.3 Gluing. Martha Stewart craft project by Nicholas Alfoldy. Photo
courtesy of Sandra Alfoldy. 84
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