Craft (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

2018, edited by Tanya Harrod, a re-examination of craft as a modern and contemporary art

Author

Tanya Harrod, editor

Publisher

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2018

Craft (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Paperback in wraps. 21 × 15cm, 238pp.

Published in 2018 as part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series (co-published by the Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press), Tanya Harrod’s Craft is an essential anthology that re-examines craft as a vital, highly contested category in modern and contemporary art. Rather than treating craft merely as traditional decorative arts or studio heritage, Harrod frames it as a dynamic lens to investigate materials, handwork, the politics of labour, and process in progressive art and design.

Artists surveyed include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anni Albers, El Anatsui, Carl Andre, Aaron Angell, Ruth Asawa, Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Neil Brownsword, Annie Cattrell, Edmund de Waal, Harun Farocki, Lucio Fontana, Karl Fritsch, Martino Gamper, Theaster Gates, Gee's Bend Quiltmakers, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Sheila Hicks, Donald Judd, Ana Lupas, Lu Shengzhong, Enzo Mari, Mario Merz, Martin Puryear, Jessi Reaves, Bridget Riley, Ettore Sottsas, Studio Formafantasma, Francis Upritchard, Peter Voulkos Writers include Glenn Adamson, Elissa Auther, Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, Susan S. Bean, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Giovanni Contini, Alfred Gell, Cathy Gere, Walter Gropius, Henry Heerup, bell hooks, Ulrich Lehmann, Lucy R. Lippard, Sarat Maharaj, Karl Marx, Sadie Plant, Nancy Princenthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Roberts, Kenneth E. Silver, Jenni Sorkin.