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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The essays in this anthology propose that it is un surprising that such old-fashioned handmade images and ob jects should resonate with artists and audiences in our high-tech world. In today’s information age the sensuous tactile “infor- mation” of craft media speaks as St?phane does of a direct con- nection to humanity that is perhaps endangered or at the very least being rapidly reconfigured in our technologically saturated… twenty-first-century lives-thus demonstrating the extraordi nary potential of these seemingly ordinary media and processes. This return to the handmade associations of craft media is one that the contemporary art world has been exploring in rela- tion to just this issue. (In fact to coincide with the film’s release. Gondry’s meticulously made props and sets were exhibited at New York City’s blue-chip Deitch Gallery as exemplary of this phenomenon.) This impetus to counter the tyrannical pressure of technology with handicraft is nothing new. Since the early nineteenth century Arts and Crafts pioneers such as the English (LL)