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Material Culture Caucus
Craft at the Crossroads Resources
A Resource Guide to Accompany
Material Culture Caucus Sponsored Session
American Studies Association Meeting, 2008
Books
Adamson, Glenn. Thinking Through Craft. Oxford, Eng., and New York: Berg, 2007.
Alfoldy, Sandra, ed. NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts. Halifax, NS: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2007.
Becker, Jane S. Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Buszek, Maria Elena, ed. Extra/ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2008.
Dilworth, Leah. Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Fariello, M. Anne, and Paula Owen, eds. Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Greenhalgh, Paul, ed. The Persistence of Craft: The Applied Arts Today. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Hillis, Ken, Michael Petit, with Nathan Scott Epley, eds. Everyday Ebay: Culture, Collecting and Desire. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Jones, Michael Owen. Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.
Macdonald, Anne L. No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
McFadden, David Revere, with Jennifer Scanlan and Jennifer Steifle Edwards. Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting. New York: Museum of Arts & Design, 2007.
McFadden, David Revere. Pricked: Extreme Embroidery. New York: Museum of Arts & Design, 2007.
Parker, Rozsika. The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine. London: Women’s Press, 1984.
Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Workmanship. Rev. ed. Bethel, CT: Cambium Press, 1995.
Snyder, Rachel Louise. Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade. New York: Norton, 2008.
Whiteley, Nigel. Design for Society. London: Reaktion Books, 1993.
Journals
Web Sites and Blogs
Documentary Films
(companion book: Jo Lauria and Steven Fenton, Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects [New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007])
Handmade Nation, to be completed 2009
(companion book: Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design [New York: Princeton University Press, 2008])
Museums
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Art and Design (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Los Angeles, CA
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
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Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]