Name/Title
Material matters : the art and culture of contemporary textilesEntry/Object ID
TS1318.M38 1998Description
Against a framework of feminism and postmodernism, sixteen artists, historians and cultural theorists interpret textiles as a conceptual and material field of visual art. Four major themes are articulated: Material and Process, Articulating Gender and Identity, Cloth, Colonialism and Resistance, and Reconsidering Tradition and History.Collection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
textile crafts--canada--history--20th century, textile crafts--cultural aspects, textile crafts--social aspectsBook Details
Editor
Ingrid Bachmann, Ruth ScheuingPublisher
XYZ BooksDate Published
1998ISBN
9780920397237Notes
Length: 254General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Material and Process. Material and the promise of the immaterial -- Embodying subjectivity -- Mary Scott: in me more than me -- An archaeology of tapestry -- Weaving out loud -- II. Articulating gender and identity. Three dresses, tailored to the times -- Queer stigmata: the embroidery art of Robert Windrum -- Autobiographical patterns -- Common threads: local strategies for "inappropriated artists" -- III. Cloth, colonialism and resistance. Who's "we" white man? -- A journey --Arachne's genre: towards inter-cultural studies in textiles -- IV. Reconsidering tradition and history. The unravelling of history: Penelope and other stories -- Crimes against nature -- Skanda -- Death and deterrence -- Contributors -- Credits.