Craft for a Modern World
Nora Atkinson
Craft for a Modern World presents 150 of the Renwick Gallery’s 2,000 artworks in a new light, celebrating the restoration and reopening of its historic landmark home. Encouraging readers to find their own connections—as they have come to expect in today’s hyperlinked world—curator Nora Atkinson describes some of her associations among these artifacts of makers, both contemporary and pioneer. Readers can engage the artworks through subtle linkages in the color plates, which introduce related works in black and white. According to Atkinson, the artworks in this catalogue, many of them newly photographed, “are a playground for the mind.”
$31.96softcover
$43.96hardcover
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Product Details
- Co-Publisher
- Copublished with D Giles Ltd.
- Year Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 208 pp.: Ill.
- ISBN
- Hardcover: 978-1-907804-82-3
- Softcover: 978-0-937311-80-6
- Dimensions
- 9 1⁄2 x 12 1⁄4 in.
Exhibitions
April 19, 2023–April 19, 2033
SAAM’s branch location for contemporary craft, the Renwick Gallery, showcases the dynamic landscape of American craft today. Currently on view are more than 100 works in a range of mediums from fiber and ceramics to glass, metal, wood, and mixed media.
June 30, 2016–February 20, 2018
This summer the permanent collection returns to the Renwick Gallery with a dynamic new presentation of 80+ objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.