Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
More than Hand-made - Crafts in Contemporary Society
Convener:
Professor David Jeremiah (University of Plymouth)
This strand welcomes contributions that will give new insight into the identities attached to the craft object in industrial society. Raising questions on meaning and purpose, it is an opportunity to examine the craft object as polemic, and the practitioner as campaigner. Taking a broader social and cultural context may lead to papers that set out to evaluate the interventionist role of museums, exhibitions and retail outlets, and reassess the critiques offered by art history. Similarly important would be research that addresses conceptual issues arising from debates on such matters as the empathy that lies between maker and materials, the uses of new processes, technologies and materials, and questions of class, gender and national identity.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth, Earl Richard\'s Road North, Exeter EX2 6AS.
Tel: (01392) 475022; Fax: (01392) 475012.
Professor David Jeremiah (University of Plymouth)
This strand welcomes contributions that will give new insight into the identities attached to the craft object in industrial society. Raising questions on meaning and purpose, it is an opportunity to examine the craft object as polemic, and the practitioner as campaigner. Taking a broader social and cultural context may lead to papers that set out to evaluate the interventionist role of museums, exhibitions and retail outlets, and reassess the critiques offered by art history. Similarly important would be research that addresses conceptual issues arising from debates on such matters as the empathy that lies between maker and materials, the uses of new processes, technologies and materials, and questions of class, gender and national identity.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth, Earl Richard\'s Road North, Exeter EX2 6AS.
Tel: (01392) 475022; Fax: (01392) 475012.