Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

by Maria Elena Buszek, Dennis Stevens, M. Anna Fariello, et al.

Book Overview

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists who incorporate craft into their work, few art critics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347628
• ISBN13: 9780822347620
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"