Within the guilded cage

Olding, Simon (2017) Within the guilded cage. In: Exhibiting craft and design: transgressing the white cube paradigm, 1930-present. Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 56-76. ISBN 9781472476951

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Creators:

Olding, Simon

Description/Abstract:

An 8000 word book chapter in ed., Alla Myzelev, Exhibiting craft and design: transgressing the white cube paradigm 1930-present. This chapter considers the hitherto unresearched history of the Dorset Craft Guild, and establishes the narrative of their exhibition activity and rationale.

The book investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected, displayed, and interpreted throughout the second half of the twentieth century and in recent years. The case studies discussed in this volume explain the notion the neutral display space had worked with, challenged, distorted, or assisted in conveying the ideas of the exhibitions in question. In various ways the essays included in this volume analyse and investigate strategies to facilitate interaction amongst craft and design objects, their audiences, exhibiting bodies, and the makers. Using both historical examples from the middle of the twentieth century and contemporary trends, the authors create a dialogue that investigates the different uses of and challenges to the White Cube paradigm of space organisation.

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Book Section

Date:

25 May 2017

Additional Information:

On embargo for 18 months until 26 November 2018, as per Routledge Open Access policy at: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Routledge+T%26F+Policies+for+Open+Access+Book+Chapters+FINAL.pdf

Schools:

School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography

Research Centres:

Crafts Study Centre

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