Craft Economies

Book Overview

Craft Economies brings together leading international scholars to explore practices of contemporary amateur and professional craft production across a range of disciplines. The contributors situate modern craft in a wider creative economy, challenging previous assumptions and highlighting the relevance of craft in the modern world. Reflecting the diversity of contemporary craft, Craft Economies spans a vast landscape of craft practices, sites and forms of making, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. It brings into focus such topics as the significance of place, the role of the digital, and conflicts between the homemade and the commodity, and looks at both regional and national contexts - from global distribution to local communities. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474259537
• ISBN13: 9781474259538
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.8"