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Oral history in the visual arts / edited by Linda Sandino and Matthew Partington.

Contributor(s): Partington, Matthew [editor of compilation.] | Sandino, Linda [editor of compilation.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Description: xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857851970 ; 0857851977 ; 9780857851987; 0857851985.Subject(s): Art -- Historiography | Oral historyDDC classification: 707.2
Contents:
Introduction. Oral history in and about art, craft and design / Linda Sandino -- pt. 1. Arts practices. The body event : voice and recorded histories in the creation of a sound installation based on the ideas of the work of artist John Latham / David Toop ; De mudder tongue : oral history work as an arts practice / Michael Mcmillan ; Private voices and public places : using oral histories in site-specific text-based art / Bettina Furnee and Ian Horton ; Chronicle from the field / Alexandra Handal ; History in the making : the use of talk in inter-disciplinary collaborative craft practice / David Gates -- pt. 2. Histories. On quality : curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010) / Richard Candida Smith ; Voices in art history / Liz Bruchet ; Speaking of craft : the Nanette L. Laitman documentation project for craft and decorative arts in America / Liza Kirwin ; The museum as a work of art : interviewing museum architects, engineers, and builders / Anne Ritchie ; Oral history work with Tibetan and Nepalese metalworkers, (1986-1991) / John Clarke ; The death of small things : the Cork Craftsman's Guild (1973-1984) / Eleanor Flegg -- pt. 3. Identities. The craft of conversation : oral history and lesbian feminist art practice / Ann Cvetkovich ; Crafty chats or whose craft is it anyway? Domestic discourse and making marginality matter / Jo Turney ; Feedsack fashion in rural Appalachia : a social history of women's experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina (1929-1956) / Natalya Buckel ; Covering up / Claire Wilcox ; From punk to the hijab : women's embodied dress as performative resistance, 1970s to the present / Shehnaz Suterwalla ; Becoming an artist : life histories and visual images / Maria Tamboukou and Gali Weiss ; Narratives in practice : the small and big stories of design / Arlene Oak -- Conclusion. Oral history and research ethics in the visual arts : current and future challenges / Matthew Partington.
Summary: Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.

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Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how artists, writers and historians deploy interviews as creative practice, as 'history', and as a means to insights into the micro-practices of arts production and identity that contribute to questions of 'voice', authenticity, and authorship. Through a wide range of case studies from international scholars and practitioners across a variety of fields, the volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded. Oral History in the Visual Arts is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners across the visual arts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Oral history in and about art, craft and design / Linda Sandino -- pt. 1. Arts practices. The body event : voice and recorded histories in the creation of a sound installation based on the ideas of the work of artist John Latham / David Toop ; De mudder tongue : oral history work as an arts practice / Michael Mcmillan ; Private voices and public places : using oral histories in site-specific text-based art / Bettina Furnee and Ian Horton ; Chronicle from the field / Alexandra Handal ; History in the making : the use of talk in inter-disciplinary collaborative craft practice / David Gates -- pt. 2. Histories. On quality : curators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1935-2010) / Richard Candida Smith ; Voices in art history / Liz Bruchet ; Speaking of craft : the Nanette L. Laitman documentation project for craft and decorative arts in America / Liza Kirwin ; The museum as a work of art : interviewing museum architects, engineers, and builders / Anne Ritchie ; Oral history work with Tibetan and Nepalese metalworkers, (1986-1991) / John Clarke ; The death of small things : the Cork Craftsman's Guild (1973-1984) / Eleanor Flegg -- pt. 3. Identities. The craft of conversation : oral history and lesbian feminist art practice / Ann Cvetkovich ; Crafty chats or whose craft is it anyway? Domestic discourse and making marginality matter / Jo Turney ; Feedsack fashion in rural Appalachia : a social history of women's experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina (1929-1956) / Natalya Buckel ; Covering up / Claire Wilcox ; From punk to the hijab : women's embodied dress as performative resistance, 1970s to the present / Shehnaz Suterwalla ; Becoming an artist : life histories and visual images / Maria Tamboukou and Gali Weiss ; Narratives in practice : the small and big stories of design / Arlene Oak -- Conclusion. Oral history and research ethics in the visual arts : current and future challenges / Matthew Partington.

Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.

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CHOICE Review

Oral History in the Visual Arts is a compilation of articles collected and edited by Sandino (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) and Partington (Univ. of the West of England, UK). Most of the essays were originally presented as papers at "Record Create: Oral History in Art, Craft and Design," a conference organized by the Oral History Society and the V&A in 2010. These essays highlight the growing trend of using interviews to inform creative research, particularly in the exhibition of the visual arts. This volume is divided into three parts: one segment on the practice of capturing oral data for arts research; one on the function of interviewing in the pursuit of art historiography and museology; and the final portion on the role of oral history in the capture of artistic identities. Lavishly illustrated with many photographs, it presents readers with a good introduction to the role oral history plays in creating and preserving the visual arts. It will be a valuable addition to undergraduate or art school library collections, or for graduate research in the oral historiography of museology and artistic creativity. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. S. P. Beiting Brown Mackie College

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Linda Sandino is the CCW/V&A Senior Research Fellow at Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK. Matthew Partington is the V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow (Applied Arts) at UWE and a Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.

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