Name/Title
Art_textilesEntry/Object ID
NK8810.5.W45Description
The status of textiles as an art medium is highly ambivalent. Traditionally, they have been situated on the margins, in a borderland between art and craft. Since the 1960s, a growing body of contemporary art demonstrates a new engagement with the materials and techniques of crafts, particularly textiles, raising questions about the value of the handmade in the digital age. This show includes artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Ghada Amer and Kimsooja, who use textiles as a powerful tool for expressing ideas about the social, political and artistic.Context
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art_Textiles at the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester, 10 October 2015-31 January 2016.Lexicon
Search Terms
fiberwork--21st century, fiberwork--exhibitions, textile artists, textile fabrics in artLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Jennifer Harris, Pennina Barnett, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Amy GeorgePublisher
The WhitworthDate Published
2015Call No.
NK8810.5.W45ISBN
901673919, 9780901673916LCCN
2015514922Notes
Length: 96General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Foreword / Maria Balshaw --
ART TEXTILES, An extra/ordinary medium / Jennifer Harris --
Living Room, Classroom, Studio, Museum: The Cultural Versatility of Textiles / Julia Bryan-Wilson --
Cloth, Memory and Loss / Pennina Barnett --
Magdalena Abakanowicz --
Ghada Amer --
Beverly Ayling-Smith --
Maxine Bristow --
Jagoda Buić --
Susan Collis --
Tracey Emin --
Helga Sophie Goetze --
Shelly Goldsmith --
Lubaina Himid --
Kimsooja --
Abdoulaye Konaté --
Lawrence Lemaoana --
Lyn Malcolm --
Laima Oržekauskienė --
Grayson Perry --
Jessica Rankin --
Elaine Reichek --
Miriam Schapiro --
Mary Sibande --
Do Ho Suh --
Risham Syed --
Dorothea Tanning --
Michele Walker --
Faith Wilding --
Anne Wilson --
Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė --
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