Woven Histories. Textiles and Modern Abstraction.

Lynne Cooke

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Woven Histories. Textiles and Modern Abstraction. - Lynne Cooke Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles particularly weaving as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts. Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues of our time. University of Chicago Press, 2023 Hardcover, 292pp 279 x 241mm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1724059757941

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Titel: Woven Histories. Textiles and Modern ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New