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

by Julia Skelly
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350122956
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 95.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Textile & Costume, Ceramics, and Violence in Society

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.

Skelly, Julia: - Julia Skelly teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Skelly is the author of Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919 (2014) and the editor of The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010(2014).

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