Slater, A., 2021.
Book Review of 'Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications' by Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon and Amanda Briggs-Goode (eds) (2020)
| Output Type: | Non-peer reviewed article |
| Publication: | Craft Research Journal |
| Publisher: | Intellect |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 2040-4689 |
| URL: | www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/crre/2021/00000012/00000002/art00011;jsessionid=2te5f3dpo8nda.x-ic-live-01 |
| Volume/Issue: | 12 (2) |
| Pagination: | pp. 353-358 |
With the human body as its central focus, Crafting Anatomies explores the 'relationships makers have with the fabric of, and for the body' (Townsend, Solomon and Briggs-Goode, 2020: 2). Following Glenn Adamson (2019), its broad, transdisciplinary definition of craft concerns the actions and concepts of practitioners who use the body 'as a form of "material intelligence" (Townsend, Solomon and Briggs-Goode, 2020: 3). As such, and staying true to the original intentions of the 2015 exhibition at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, from which it developed, the book centres around creative practice.