Crafting In The World

Download or read book Crafting America written by Glenn Adamson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A companion to the exhibition Crafting America curated at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, this publication explores the interdisciplinary contexts of the assembled works, featuring contributions from scholars with expertise in art history, American studies, folklore, and museum studies. Essay topics include the significance of craft within Native American histories and explorations of craft's relationship to ritual and memory, personal independence, and abstraction"--