1st Edition

Exhibiting Craft and Design Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930–Present

212 Pages

by Routledge

212 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

212 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930–present investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected, displayed, and interpreted throughout the second half of the twentieth century and in recent years. The case studies discussed in this volume explain the notion the neutral display space had worked with, challenged, distorted, or assisted in... Read more

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Dedication

1. Introduction: The Persistence of the White Cube Paradigm
Alla Myzelev

2. Textiles on Display
Virginia Troy

3. Crafting Koreanness: How Korean National Identity Became Interwoven with the Handmade Object in the 20th Century
Christine Y. Hahn

4. Within the Guilded Cage
Simon Olding

5. Curatorial Strategies that Remain True to the Craft Object
Gloria Hickey

6. Quiet Revolution: Contemporary Curatorial Approaches to Ceramics in the White Cube
Laura Gray

7. Jewellery Can be Worn Too
Roberta Bernabei

8. Store/Museum
Sara Nasby and Jen Hutton

9. ‘I Could Have Visited Ikea for Free’ Design Museums and a Complicated Relationship with Commerce
Elise Hodson

10. Outside the White Cube
Lisa Vinebaum

11. Afterword
Alla Myzelev