Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects
Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects
$35.00
Holt, Steven Skov
Cl. San Francisco, 2008
Book ID: 78730
Conspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture today. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using a vast array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen caps, and more. By deploying techniques normally associated with the world of craft (such as sewing, weaving, crochet, collage, assemblage, and so forth) upon these synthetic items, they create something wholly new, something that combines the uniform and mass-produced with the unique and handmade.
160 pp., 80 color illus.
