Lecture: "Production Values: Narratives of Making in Contemporary Art"

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Intersections Visiting Scholar Glenn Adamson presents a lecture "Production Values: Narratives of Making in Contemporary Art."

Today’s artists have an unprecedented level of choice with regard to materials and methods available to them, yet the processes involved in making artworks are rarely addressed in books or exhibitions on art.

In this lecture, preeminent craft theorist and historian Glenn Adamson will draw from his new book "Art in the Making" (co-authored with Julia Bryan-Wilson). He will share stories from contemporary art, which collectively demonstrate that the materials and methods used to make artworks hold the key to artists’ motivations, their attitudes to authorship, uniqueness and the value of objects, the economic and social contexts from which they emerge, and their approach to the perceived opposition between materiality and conceptualism in art.

Book-signing to follow lecture. Books will be available from the UH Bookstore at this event.

Glenn Adamson is a curator and theorist who works across the fields of design, craft and contemporary art. He was until March 2016 the Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He has previously been Head of Research at the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum – UK), and Curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. His publications include "Art in the Making" (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); "Invention of Craft" (2013); "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion" (2011); "The Craft Reader" (2010); and "Thinking Through Craft" (2007).

Ticket Information
Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, (808) 956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions+events/exhibitions/?p=2100

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