Name/Title
The subversive stitch : embroidery and the making of the feminineEntry/Object ID
NK9206.P37Description
This classic evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. This new edition brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalization of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women.Lexicon
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embroidery--history, women in artBook Details
Author
Rozsika ParkerPublisher
I. B. TaurisDate Published
2017Call No.
NK9206.P37ISBN
1848852835, 9781848852839LCCN
2011286307Notes
Length: 247