Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of modern 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 offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of modern 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.
Edited by Lynne Cooke with Elissa Auther, Darby English, Briony Fer, Michelle Kuo, and Bibiana K. Obler and Jeffrey Gibson, Ann Hamilton, Harmony Hammond, Ellen Lesperance, Carole Frances Lung, Ulrike Müller, and Lisa Oppenheim
Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, as Sophie Taeuber-Arp translates the abstract aesthetic informing her handicrafts to her fine art practice, then continues with the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, and other pioneering women artists who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. From there it extends into the twenty-first century, as the intersection of textiles, dress, and abstraction engages artists as varied as Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins. Their wide-ranging works continue to shape this discourse.
Including groundbreaking essays by art historians and reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious book reveals how artists have engaged these intertwined histories to probe questions regarding social justice, community and kinship, gender, and other urgent issues of our time.
Published by the National Gallery of Art and University of Chicago Press
- Cloth
- 9 1/2 × 11 inches
- 292 pages, 190 color illus.
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| Description | Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of modern 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.
Edited by Lynne Cooke with Elissa Auther, Darby English, Briony Fer, Michelle Kuo, and Bibiana K. Obler and Jeffrey Gibson, Ann Hamilton, Harmony Hammond, Ellen Lesperance, Carole Frances Lung, Ulrike Müller, and Lisa Oppenheim Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, as Sophie Taeuber-Arp translates the abstract aesthetic informing her handicrafts to her fine art practice, then continues with the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, and other pioneering women artists who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. From there it extends into the twenty-first century, as the intersection of textiles, dress, and abstraction engages artists as varied as Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins. Their wide-ranging works continue to shape this discourse. Including groundbreaking essays by art historians and reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious book reveals how artists have engaged these intertwined histories to probe questions regarding social justice, community and kinship, gender, and other urgent issues of our time. Published by the National Gallery of Art and University of Chicago Press
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