Buzek believes that craft is fading in this time of technology and modernization. It feels as if she is very much opposing the idea of modernizing in these begginning paragraphs. She goes on implying that by defying the high-tech world, it led artist to construct craft out of certain meaterial such as glass, fiber, etc, which she believes is good, but then she also believe that by being defiant, it gives new artists little opportunities. And her reason for this, she states "the craft world that embraces and promotes these media is nearly as exclusive in its insistence upon maintaining the romance of these media as the so-called art world is in its romance with the conceptual". She further this point by following up with the idea of art ientity and art styles(primarily conceptual), and how it is stuck in the middle of the system. Her solution to this is to not give up and to revisit the history of craft and applied the knowledge of this history to differentiate the difference betwween fine art and applied art.
Buzek states that craft is more of technical knowledge and art as conceptual knowledge, which is from the perspecdtive of the feminist scholar Rasziki Parks.She also stated that during teh end of wwii and because of expanding art programs develop by the government, these programs started to combine arts and craft into one aspect. from this merge came the idea of fine craft and the increase of medai incorporated art. Though through these works, the artiest are bound to socialhistorical materials and not approach newer unique materials. In such ways, she kepts going to the idea that art is conceptual, like photography and ceramics. She later says that craft media can incorporate craft and life, but art cannot. Craft became known as improvement and makeovers.
In this era artiest have more freedom to incorporate various different things, styles, materials, etc into theri work, but as Buzekd states, these artiest do not get any attention from the media. As time goes by, craft began to slowly incorporate into art and became less known to the public as craft. This begin to blur the borders between art and craft and many artist tends to cross these boundaries as they invent.
Steven stated that the validaty of an artist work is dependent on the person viewing the piece. He also stated that in order to become a professional, one must first be validated in their community and field. He also side with Buzek that art and craft are blurringin the boundary between them, and one reason he state is that it is much harder to find hand crafted material compare to those found in walmart and other depot stores. As time proceeds he belief that technology is takingover hand made crafts and being replaced by cheap imitations. He strongly believe that hand made craft are the "real" and these new cheap imitations are not, in the concept of there artistic value.
Steven also believe that craft in society have a big influence on lifestyles, and he portrays this in the exaple of the german socialist and actions to force people to buy what when and where. The concept of lifestlye is conditioned by the mass producition and mass comsumption of todays world, and thus forces the creation of cheap imitations. he begin to give reason why there are many different catagories of craft organizations one page 4. The aspects and concepts of these organization is presented in exhibitions, parties, and meetings. The popularity of these organizatons begins to be dependent on the internet to promote and sell their crafts.
He also refer to DIY, and the idea of do-it-yourself similar to the readings we did before hand. The DIY style he stated posseses irony, style and a little touch of kitsch. He also believes that DIY does not require or want to be validated, if it even can be. DIY allows people to stand up for their view points in the economy and social beliefs, namely sweat shops manufacturers. He also stated that DIY is a way to reconnect with the past traditions. He urges artest to come together and cooperate inorder to learn more about the craft in itself and to work together to keep the craft from extinction or assimilaton with the mass production and mass consumption of todays society. He ended with the statement that craft is entirely dependent upon the manner in which the map is conceptualize and manifested.
net root movement
arts and craft movement
Studio crafr movement
DIY movement
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