The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

Here's one I made earlier: making and living with home craft in contemporary Britain

Here's one I made earlier: making and living with home craft in contemporary Britain
Here's one I made earlier: making and living with home craft in contemporary Britain
This paper aims to investigate the ways in which the makers of home craft negotiate the meanings of ‘design’, ‘craft’ and ‘art’. Developing from studies in sociology, anthropology, design history and material culture, this paper questions the production and consumption of home-crafted objects within the domestic environment and aims to question the meaning of making in contemporary Britain. A discourse is constructed around oral history testimonies in which home craft makers are also its consumers, which situates the home as a site of production and consumption. Rather than interpreting person/object relations as an extension of ‘taste’, a more dynamic interplay of social and cultural relations is established by investigating the choice of kits, patterns and subjects made by respondents. This is discussed in relation to their display and juxtaposed with popular concepts of art, artistry, aesthetics and decoration. This article therefore confronts the ordinary and its consequent transformation into the extraordinary.
0952-4649
267-282
Turney, Joanne
7693d7d8-fa70-42ef-bd6e-a7fd02d272ab
Turney, Joanne
7693d7d8-fa70-42ef-bd6e-a7fd02d272ab

Turney, Joanne (2004) Here's one I made earlier: making and living with home craft in contemporary Britain. Journal of Design History, 17 (3), 267-282. (doi:10.1093/jdh/17.3.267).

Record type: Article

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the ways in which the makers of home craft negotiate the meanings of ‘design’, ‘craft’ and ‘art’. Developing from studies in sociology, anthropology, design history and material culture, this paper questions the production and consumption of home-crafted objects within the domestic environment and aims to question the meaning of making in contemporary Britain. A discourse is constructed around oral history testimonies in which home craft makers are also its consumers, which situates the home as a site of production and consumption. Rather than interpreting person/object relations as an extension of ‘taste’, a more dynamic interplay of social and cultural relations is established by investigating the choice of kits, patterns and subjects made by respondents. This is discussed in relation to their display and juxtaposed with popular concepts of art, artistry, aesthetics and decoration. This article therefore confronts the ordinary and its consequent transformation into the extraordinary.

This record has no associated files available for download.

More information

Published date: 1 September 2004
Organisations: Winchester School of Art

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 404469
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/404469
ISSN: 0952-4649
PURE UUID: 2e522f85-23ba-45cb-bb33-f0f80c5d152a

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 09 Jan 2017 15:02
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 04:08

Export record

Altmetrics

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×