Butch-Craft
"The emergence of Butch-Craft in contemporary design.
Through the infusion of cerebral-yet-virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron, steel, marble, rust, paint, boiled leather, clay, backed agricultural waste, plant-life, gypsum drywalls, and blood, sweat and tears."
"“MAKE ME.” presents a small but diverse body of work by an otherwise un-related collective of artists and designers, which together celebrate a rough-hewn, virile, reductive, anti-academic, craft-driven, ‘tool-belt and heavy-lifting’ aesthetic, paradoxically realized with such sensitivity and finesse, often embodying subtle, complex theoretical, structural, formal, and compositional aspects, and infused with such poetic narrative as to be necessarily characterized as ‘butch’, a word defined in today’s vernacular as a stereotypical ‘brute-masculine’ approach taken by a stereotypical ‘sensitive-feminine’ personality. "
http://www.mossonline.com [...] 20100915
Butch mainstreaming?
Here the company:
http://www.mossonline.com/
...and here the guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Moss
I find the idea interesting even though or maybe for the reason that the majority if not all the artists included a male. Well, at least they have a male name.
What do you think?
Through the infusion of cerebral-yet-virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron, steel, marble, rust, paint, boiled leather, clay, backed agricultural waste, plant-life, gypsum drywalls, and blood, sweat and tears."
"“MAKE ME.” presents a small but diverse body of work by an otherwise un-related collective of artists and designers, which together celebrate a rough-hewn, virile, reductive, anti-academic, craft-driven, ‘tool-belt and heavy-lifting’ aesthetic, paradoxically realized with such sensitivity and finesse, often embodying subtle, complex theoretical, structural, formal, and compositional aspects, and infused with such poetic narrative as to be necessarily characterized as ‘butch’, a word defined in today’s vernacular as a stereotypical ‘brute-masculine’ approach taken by a stereotypical ‘sensitive-feminine’ personality. "
http://www.mossonline.com [...] 20100915
Butch mainstreaming?
Here the company:
http://www.mossonline.com/
...and here the guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Moss
I find the idea interesting even though or maybe for the reason that the majority if not all the artists included a male. Well, at least they have a male name.
What do you think?
