Queer Crafts
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-35935-2 (ISBN)
Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness.
Queer Crafts provides a nuanced and timely study of the dynamic intersection of queerness and craft, examining a wide range of media – textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass. Daniel Fountain demonstrates how LGBTQ+ practitioners – including LJ Roberts, Paul Yore, Rose Schmits, Nicki Green, Hansel Tai, Affect Metals, Troy Montes-Michie, Antonius Tín-Bui, Raul De Lara, Nifemi Ogunro, Tim Tate, and Hamad Butt – use these materials as powerful vehicles for self-expression, community building, and social critique. Reframing craft through a queer and trans theoretical lens, the book analyzes how these practitioners reclaim histories, rewrite narratives, disrupt hierarchies, and craft their own worlds. A significant contribution to the field, Queer Crafts is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines.
Daniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. They have published widely on gender, sexuality, contemporary art, and craft, including the edited collection Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain (2023). Daniel is also a practitioner and curator with international experience
List of Figures
Preface: Creatively Bent
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unraveling ‘Queer’ and ‘Craft’
TEXTILE
Chapter 1.Threads of Kinship: Queer Worldmaking and Crafting Community
CERAMIC
Chapter 2. Ceramics in Transition: Centering the Transgender Experience
WOOD
Chapter 3. Against the Grain: Queer Furniture and The Politics of Discomfort
PAPER
Chapter 4. Paper Trails: (De)Constructing Identity Through Papercutting and Collage
METAL
Chapter 5. Shimmering Selves and Erotic Expressions in Armour and Adornment
GLASS
Chapter 6. Handle with Care: Fragility and Viral Containment
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Glossary
I: Key LGBTQ+ Terms
II: Key Technical Terms
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.01.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Craft Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 34 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 492 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-35935-1 / 1350359351 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-35935-2 / 9781350359352 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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