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Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art

Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art

Skelly, Julia

Hardcover

CeramicsCriminologyFashion & Accessories

ISBN10: 1350122955
ISBN13: 9781350122956
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Feb 10 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.29
Language: English

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. Skin Crafts interrogates ongoing material violence towards women and marginalized others, and demonstrates the power of contemporary art to force viewers and scholars into facing their ethical responsibilities as human beings.

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