Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft

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This is an annotated evaluation of the following:
Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft. edited by M. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen
M. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen, ed. Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft (Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2004)

Reviewed by Randi O’Brien

A expansive book of compiled essays that provide historical, theoretical, and cultural conversations within the realm of artistic made objects. Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft edited by author and curator M. Anna Fariello, and the president of the Southwest School of Art and Craft Paula Owen, charts the dialogue of innovative, progressive, and critical thinking of makers, scholars, and connoisseurs of artist made objects in the twentieth century. The editors present an avenue for artist and scholars to engage the meaning of objects through the perspective of craftsmen, artists, philosophers, and the concerned maker. While I have selected several articles from this book to review in-depth, the reaming articles I didn’t specifically review were written with raw and confusing methodology. This is not to say the perspectives and arguments were inadequate, rather that the voice and format for writing was heavily distracting to the core concern.

The editors organized a concise and logical format, with their voice and perspective heard solely in their own writings. Craftsmen, artists, and makers of all disciplines working with objects and the theory of objects would find this article useful for the perpetual concern of assigning and interpreting meaning within an artist made object.

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