This volume reveals a major trend taking place today in visual and material culturethe radical appropriation of consumer goods as raw material for art- and object-making. A growing number of artists, craftspeople, and designers are realigning traditional craft practices with already manufactured objects and materials to marry the uniquely handmade with the uniformly mass-produced. Published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Manufactured offers an arresting look at the new crossover of craft, art, and design, and an exciting new cultural genre.
Steven Skov Holt Bücher
A survey of American design that cuts across the disciplines of architecture, product design and graphic design. It accompanies the first in a series of triennials to be held at the Smithsonian National Design Museum, covering the period 1997-2000 and involving over 80 individuals and firms.