The distinction between ‘arts’ and ‘crafts’ is just so much historic misogyny. There is no reason why something useful cannot be art! Particularly as communists we should work to find beauty and and actualization through the regular stuff of life.
There’s no reason why a beautifully made plate you eat on each day isn’t art but a plate placed in a postmodern exhibition is now magically art because of the (usually white male) artistic intent.
Traditionally “women’s” work was considered crafts: quilting, weaving, spinning, sewing, clothesmaking, and so on while representational arts with less use value like painting and sculpting were mainly restricted to male artisans and deemed art.
To conclude, the art com should be expanded to include crafting particularly since it has very low activity and would not benefit from splitting with an allied (and imo overlapping) subject matter.
The distinction between ‘arts’ and ‘crafts’ is just so much historic misogyny. There is no reason why something useful cannot be art! Particularly as communists we should work to find beauty and and actualization through the regular stuff of life.
There’s no reason why a beautifully made plate you eat on each day isn’t art but a plate placed in a postmodern exhibition is now magically art because of the (usually white male) artistic intent.
Traditionally “women’s” work was considered crafts: quilting, weaving, spinning, sewing, clothesmaking, and so on while representational arts with less use value like painting and sculpting were mainly restricted to male artisans and deemed art.
To conclude, the art com should be expanded to include crafting particularly since it has very low activity and would not benefit from splitting with an allied (and imo overlapping) subject matter.