ISBN:
9781785331824
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
366 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 6
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with 'innovation' in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement -- Maruška Svašek -- Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design -- Barbara Plankensteiner -- Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity -- Tereza Kuldova -- Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan Baskets -- Kala Shreen -- Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India -- Amit Desai -- Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation -- Arnd Schneider -- Chapter 6. Positioned Creativity -- Øivind Fuglerud -- Chapter 7. 'We paint our way and the Christian way together' -- Fiona Magowan and Maria Øien -- Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through Things -- Maruška Svašek -- Chapter 9. 'The Eye Likes It' -- Stine Bruland -- Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, Objects -- João Rickli -- Chapter 11. The Art of Imitation -- Rhoda Woets -- Afterword -- Birgit Meyer -- Index --
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