Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art
Julia Skelly, "Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art"
English | ISBN: 1350122955 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 33 MB
English | ISBN: 1350122955 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence.
Artists from Mexico, Africa, China, the Netherlands and Indigenous artists based in the unceded territory known as Canada are examined in relation to one another to illuminate the connections and differences across their bodies of work.
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