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So Much More Than Art
Miniature canoes, houses and totems, and human figurines have been produced on the Northwest Coast since at least the sixteenth century. What has motivated Indigenous artists to produce these tiny artworks? Are they curios, toys, art, or something else? So Much More Than Art is a highly original exploration of this intricate cultural pursuit. Through case studies and conversations with contemporary Indigenous artists, Jack Davy uncovers the ways in which miniatures have functioned as crucial components of satirical opposition to colonial government, preservation of traditional techniques, and political and legal negotiation. This nuanced study of a hitherto misunderstood practice demonstrates the importance of miniaturization as a technique for communicating complex cultural ideas between generations and communities, and across the divide that separates Indigenous and settler societies. Most of all, So Much More Than Art is a testament to the cultural resilience of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast.
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African textiles : color and creativity across a continent
Comprehensive survey of the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the entire African continent, illustrated with over 570 spectacular color photographs ... With a useful glossary and map, a guide to collections open to the public, and references for further reading.
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Fashion Curating
As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of “curating” are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to “curate”, but where does this leave the traditional understanding of curation as clothing collected and displayed in a museum? This thought-provoking volume explores the practice of fashion curating in the 21st century, bridging the gap between methods of display and notions of “the curatorial” in fashion exhibitions, commercial settings, and the virtual world. From fashion’s earliest forays into the museum to creative collaborations between luxury fashion brands and artists, this book challenges understandings of fashion curation by drawing on the palpably new spaces, places, and actors in today’s curating scene. Exploring poetic and performative museum displays in venues such as the V&A, Somerset House, MoMu, and the Royal Ontario Museum, alongside the ways that brands such as Dior, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton have made use of “the curatorial” in their own commercial strategies,Fashion Curatingasks pressing questions about controversial funding and collaboration from the commercial fashion sector, and the limitations of producing exhibitions that are at the same time critical and popular. Bringing together approaches from fashion curators, designers, and world-renowned academics, curation is positioned as a critical practice that opens up new ways of conceptualizing and theorizing fashion, challenging how we think and what we already know.
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HISTORIC STONE PAVEMENT PHOTOGRAMMETRIC 3D-SURVEY: A WAY TO GET A CATALOGUE TO PASS ON ANCIENT CRAFTS
In Tuscany, the art of paving has never been codified in written form, being already encapsulated in knowledge based on practical experience, with specialized tradesmen and stonemasons relying on direct observation and passing on their knowledge to apprentices through repetition of gestures. The streets of Volterra, a historic town in Tuscany, are still paved with the local stone, the panchina volterrana (Volterran panchina stone). Photogrammetry techniques allow high-resolution reconstruction of 3-D pavement models and geometric representation of the macrotexture component resulting from the chiselling of the stone, as well as gaining high-resolution, high-precision geometry information along with colour information. In this way, it is possible to fully characterize the stone and generate a catalogue, which can become an operational tool for those involved in monitoring and maintaining pavements. This paper presents the methodology of photogrammetric surveying and the possibility of obtaining indices of the macrotexture of the processed surface of the stone, in terms of Virtual Mean Texture Depth (V-MTD), in analogy with the analysis of asphalt surfaces. The classification is also proposed by integrating the geometric macrotexture data with the data derived from a segmentation of the different textures obtainable for the model (diffuse, ambient occlusion). This geometric information could be then enriched by the stonemason's indications, constituting, therefore, a tool for passing on one's knowledge and experience.
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The Double Life of the Scallop: Anthropomorphic Biography, 'Pulu,' and the Northern Song Discourse on Things
Like the anthropomorphic biography, the manual exhibits an unprecedented enthusiasm in making sense of the material world, from describing the minute specificities of biological organisms to tracing the cultural history of objects. Locating the revival of the biography of things in the contemporary practice of producing pulu, this article demonstrates that, contrary to prevailing assertions of the catalogues and manuals as forms of private indulgence, they served as a means for peripatetic scholar-officials in their regional posts to communicate with the court, to participate in local government, and to accelerate the integration of the local into the state. The Culture of Famous Things and Tributary Products The culture of famous things emerged just as the Song commercial economy was booming: advances in agriculture and handicraft produced a large surplus of local specialties, which was then shipped to distant markets through efficient water transportation; as a result, individual prefectures and counties became increasingly associated with their specialized products.7 The commodification of things profoundly changed the network of social and economic relationships. When discussing the expansion of the commercial market during the Northern Song, Joseph McDermott and Shiba Yoshinobu 斯波義信 cited an anonymous Song list of the \"top things in the empire\" (tianxia diyi 天下 第一).9 The list enumerated local specialties which enjoyed an empire-wide reputation: inkstones from Duan Creek in Guangdong, tree peonies from Luoyang, tea from Fujian, brocade from Sichuan, rice-paper produced in the Wu region, and lychees from Fuzhou.
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Two-Faced Rhetoric and False Assumptions: Signs of Replicated Past Terms for Discussion in Museum Catalogues
As art-criticism plays a crucial role in constructing stereotypes, the two-faced rhetoric used by writers when they discuss successful ceramic artists has reaffirmed the marginality of ceramics as art and fostered ceramic art stereotypes. By and large, individuals who write about such artists tend to replicate decades-old terms of discussion and make false assumptions to reinforce their arguments, rather than developing a contemporary discourse that expands the boundaries of taste and knowledge. Although these ceramic artists are noted as being “exceptional,” the writers are apparently reluctant to describe their unique contribution to the field. Rather, they use such trite expressions as “rejecting the standards of the ceramic medium” and being able to “speak the language of art” without any elaboration on the context of their creations. Furthermore, they never refer to historical changes and developments in Israeli ceramics but continue to characterize the field as stagnant.
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VERNACULAR CRAFT AND SCIENCE IN THE EQUATORIE OF THE PLANETIS
'The separation of liberal and mechanical arts manifested itself clearly in the literature of the [medieval] period', wrote Edgar Zilsel in 1942.1 The coming together of scholars and craftsmen, according to the influential Zilsel thesis, caused the emergence of modern science in seventeenth-century Europe. Zilsel's explanation has been challenged, but his assumption that Latin scholarship and vernacular craftsmanship were different activities practised by different people in the late Middle Ages has remained intact.2 It is in many cases true that there was a division between scientific and practical cultures, but that dichotomy could be blurred. The ways in which writers blended theoretical and practical material, exploiting the flexibility of the vernacular and moulding it to their needs, are exemplified by the Equatorie of the Planetis. The Equatorie of the Planetis was, according to Larry D. Benson, 'the most important work to be proposed for inclusion in the [Chaucer] canon in recent years'.3 This 1393 treatise occupies eight leaves of Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 75.I. It explains how to make and operate an equatorium, a device to compute the positions of the planets using raw data provided in the accompanying astronomical tables. The treatise was first put forward as a Chaucer holograph by Derek Price in 1952, and debates over its authorship ranged back and forth in the following half-century.4 At least one leading scholar changed his mind on the issue; most Chaucerians remained sceptical; but no one was able to make a conclusive case against Chaucer's authorship.5 The impasse remained until 2015, when Kari Anne Rand identified the manuscript's autograph hand. Twenty years earlier, Rand had convincingly argued that the Equatorie was an autograph draft, but that Chaucer's authorship could not be proved. Now she demonstrated palaeographically that the draft treatise was in the same hand as a pair of astronomical works donated to Tynemouth Priory e.1380. The donor had signed his copy: Dom. John Westwyk.6 Chaucer, then, can no longer be credibly claimed as the author of the Equatorie. This reattribution requires us to reassess much of what has been accepted about this important manuscript. In turn, it presents an opportunity to re-examine the categories we use to understand vernacular writing. This article will argue that the practical didactic content and style of the Equatorie demand that it be understood not merely as a scientific work, but as a piece of craft writing. Such an understanding, alongside and in dialogue with other works of theoretical and practical knowledge, may in turn motivate us to re-examine the categories into which we place Middle English texts.
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A Virtual Vertical File
Past presidents of ALSC -- some of whom have been interviewed recently by ALSC's Oral History Committee -- probably would not be surprised at how much children's services have changed since the 1940s, when ALA formed a Division for Children and Young People (a precursor name to ALSC). Like so many other social networks, there is also an app for mobile use, which makes pinning seamless and easy from device to device. Once uploaded, a pin can be repinned by other users to their own boards, thus creating a virtual trail of fellow pinners. Users may also follow other people's and organizations' boards to keep up with their posts. Pinterest is primarily utilized by home users to curate recipes, crafts, and businesses for marketing purposes. Librarians, however, are using Pinterest in a variety of personal and professional ways.
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California design 1930-1965 : living in a modern way
The heart of 'California Design' is the modern California home, famously characterized by open plans conducive to outdoor living. The layouts of modernist homes were intended to blur the distinction between indoors and out.
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