Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects

By Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov

Book Overview

This volume reveals a major trend taking place today in visual and material culturethe radical appropriation of consumer goods as raw material for art- and object-making. A growing number of artists, craftspeople, and designers are realigning traditional craft practices with already manufactured objects and materials to marry the uniquely handmade with the uniformly mass-produced. Published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Manufactured offers an arresting look at the new crossover of craft, art, and design, and an exciting new cultural genre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811865096
• ISBN13: 9780811865098
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary