{"product_id":"craft","title":"Craft","description":"Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document  major themes and ideas in contemporary art.   A vital resource through which to understand the ways  technologies, materials, techniques and tools are  investigated through the lens of craft in contemporary art.    Craft is a contested concept in art history and a vital  category through which to understand contemporary art.  Through `craft', materials, techniques and tools are  investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect  on the politics of labour and on the extraordinary  complexity of the made world around us. This anthology  offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting  identities in the context of progressive art and design  through writings by artists and makers, and drawing on  poetry, fiction, anthropology and sociology. Reflections on  new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of  handwork and the politics of work all throw light on `craft' as  process, product and ideology.   Artists surveyed include Anni Albers, El Anatsui, Phyllida  Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Annie Cattrell, Richard Deacon,  Sam Durant, Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki, Lucio Fontana,  Theaster Gates, Sabrina Geschwantner, Harmony Hammond,  Brian Jungen, Henry Krokatsis, Ana Lupas, Enzo Mari, Ethel  Mairet, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Simon Periton,  Martin Puryear, Jessi Reaves, Hannah Ryggen, Bridget Riley,  Lu Shengzhong, Troy Town Art Pottery, Francis Uprichard,  Peter Voulkos, Edmund de Waal.   Writers include Glenn Adamson, W. H. Auden, Elissa Auther,  Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, John Berger, Walter  Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, Iftikhar Dadi, Martin Heidegger,  Joan Key, Igor Kopytoff, Primo Levi, Sarat Marahraj, Karl  Marx, Lev Manovich, William Morris, Sadie Plant, Rainer  Maria Rilke, Jenni Sorkin, Richard Sennett, Julia Bryan- Wilson.","brand":"Whitechapel Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151421485141,"sku":"9780854882663N","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/b542eac8-d203-4811-bd41-c8af80effe99.jpg?v=1657016391","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/craft","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}