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

by Julia Skelly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350290467
• ISBN13: 9781350290464
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"