The Defiance of the Artisanal and the Unmaking of Wax-Print Textiles in Contemporary Art

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. INTRODUCTION
5. Making Concepts 11
6. I SKILLS
7. Flesh and Bones 23
8. Craftsmanship from the World Before 38
9. II MATERIALS
10. Lawrence Weiner’s Material Actions 61
11. It-Narratives for the Twenty-First Century 84
12. III THE OTHER AS ARTISAN
13. Sensitive Threads 107
14. The Defiance of the Artisanal and the Unmaking of Wax-Print Textiles in Contemporary Art 129
15. IV THE MAKING OF CONCEPTUAL ART
16. Carpenter of the Predicate 151
17. Collaborators and Fabricators 178
18. Between the Conceptual and Artisanal in South African Art 197
19. Authors 215
20. Credits 218