| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; History of a definition; Method and structure; 1 Surface; Using enamel paint; The philosophy of the surface; What is needed for amateur surface intervention; Paint-by-number kits: popularity, production and appropriation; Intervening-by-number: appropriation and paint- by-number as art; 2 Space; Amateur space and everyday life; Amateur labour; The late-nineteenth-century 'professionalization' of amateur practice; The malleability and invisibility of amateur tool organization |
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Everything in its right place: security and possessionEverything in its rightplace: efficiency/comfort; Consuming one's own tool organization: amateur and retail space; The aesthetics of the workstation; Making suburbia productive: poultry keeping, 1870-1920; Chickens and eggs, a complicated story; 3 Time; Is free time free?; Critique of the atemporal construction of amateur time; Amateur time as displacement: 'the busman's holiday'; Amateur railway modelling; Experiences of time in amateur railway modelling; From bodge to botch; The busman's holiday manifesto; NOTES; INDEX |
| Summary |
Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is 'differential' a temporary moment of control over work that both departs from and informs our productive engagement with the world. Knott's discussion of the theoretical aspects of amateur craft prac |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Handicraft -- Philosophy
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Handicraft -- History
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Hobbies -- Social aspects
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Hobbies -- History
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Amateurism.
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amateurism.
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History of art -- art & design styles.
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Material culture.
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Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style.
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ART -- Folk & Outsider Art.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Folkcrafts.
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Amateurism
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Handicraft
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Handicraft -- Philosophy
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Hobbies
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Hobbies -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472577368 |
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1472577361 |
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9781472577375 |
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147257737X |
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1472577353 |
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9781472577351 |
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9781474245111 |
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1474245110 |
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