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Sloppy Craft 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 1 01/05/2015 14:54 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 2 01/05/2015 14:54 Sloppy Craft Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts Edited by Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Susan Surette Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 3 01/05/2015 14:54 Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2015 © Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Susan Surette, 2015 Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Susan Surette have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-3488-0 PB: 978-1-4725-2900-8 ePDF: 978-1-4742-4897-6 ePub: 978-1-4725-3307-4 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 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 4 01/05/2015 14:54 To all makers and teachers using craft processes, concepts, tools, or materials, as well as those who value and talk about them. 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 5 01/05/2015 14:54 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 6 01/05/2015 14:54 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 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 7 01/05/2015 14:54 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 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 8 01/05/2015 14:54 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 9781472534880_txt_print.indd 9 01/05/2015 14:54
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