Oral History in the Visual Arts

'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.' - from back cover.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Bloomsbury (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Matthew PARTINGTON,

Linda SANDINO

Location code

REF.SAL2

Language

English

Keyword

oral history, art history

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

212

ISBN / ISSN

9780857851987

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction: Oral History in and about Art, Craft and Design - Linda SANDINO

Part One: 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, Ian HORTON

Chronicle from the Field - Alexandra HANDAL

History in the Making; the Use of Talk in Inter-disciplinary Collaborative Craft Practice - David GATES

Part Two: 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 G. 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

Part Three: 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 R. 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, 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

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