Marking Time in an Artisan Community

This account of the marble carving artisans of Pietrasanta, Italy, explores familiar assumptions about artisan time through an exploration of multiple, intersecting temporalities including geologic, historical, political, cultural, and technological time. Artisan practices are often relegated to the...

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Published in:Narrative culture 2024-03, Vol.11 (1), p.100-120
Main Author: Shuman, Amy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artisans
Chronotope
Ideology
Marble
Time
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Summary:This account of the marble carving artisans of Pietrasanta, Italy, explores familiar assumptions about artisan time through an exploration of multiple, intersecting temporalities including geologic, historical, political, cultural, and technological time. Artisan practices are often relegated to the past, are understood to coexist more or less uncomfortably with the present, and are not even imagined as existing in the future. Like all chronotopes, situated in place and time, artisan narratives are ideologically motivated, whether marked as time standing still, as outmoded relics of an earlier era, as nostalgic perpetuations of the past, or as legacies perpetuated in the present.
ISSN:2169-0235
2169-0251
2169-0251
DOI:10.1353/ncu.2024.a928442