Crafting America

Artists and Objects, 1940s to Today

Jen Padgett, Glenn Adamson

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University of Arkansas Press
31 January 2021

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art Forms; Folk art; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Museums & museology

Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive range of skilled making in a variety of forms, from ceramics and wood to performance costume and community-based practice.

A companion to an exhibition curated at Crystal Bridge Museum of American Art, this publication explores the interdisciplinary contexts of the assembled works, featuring contributions from scholars with expertise in art history, American studies, folklore, and museum studies. Essays delve into subjects including craft's relationship to ritual and memory, personal independence, abstraction, and the particular significance of craft within Native American histories. Within the catalog section, groupings of works discussed in detail highlight relationships between objects and move beyond limiting categories of craft and art, function and expression, and tradition and innovation. This publication addresses the intertwined quality of craft and American experience, revealing how craft has been a means to realize the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for individuals from diverse backgrounds. Over 100 full-color illustrations present a vivid picture of American craft from the past eight decades.

Building upon recent advances in craft scholarship and encouraging more inclusive narratives that look across media in art history, Crafting America presents a bold statement on the vital role of craft within the broader context of American art and identity.

Published in collaboration with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and University of Arkansas School of Art.

By: Jen Padgett, Glenn Adamson
Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 229mm,
Weight: 333g
ISBN: 9781682261521
ISBN 10: 1682261522
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 January 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Director’s Foreword Acknowledgments I. Topics Welcome to Craft — Jen Padgett Crafting Autonomy — Seph Rodney Embodying Indigenous Identity and Place: Centering Conversations on Native American Art in the United States — Anya Montiel The Persistence of Abstraction: The Vessel, the Line and the Curve — Jenni Sorkin On Reliquaries and Self-Evident Truths — Bernard L. Herman II. Catalog What is Craft? Declarations of Independence Life Liberty The Pursuit of Happiness Exhibition Checklist Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

Glenn Adamson is senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. His publications include Thinking through Craft, The Craft Reader, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, The Invention of Craft, Art in the Making, and Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects. Jen Padgett is an assistant curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her research focuses on modern art from the 1900s to 1950s, exploring connections between media and intersections between fine art and design.