Fiber : sculpture 1960-present / Jenelle Porter.
Contributor(s): Porter, Jenelle [author,, curator,, editor.] | Adamson, Glenn [author.] | Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.) [sponsoring body,, host institution.] | Wexner Center for the Arts [host institution.] | Des Moines Art Center [host institution.].
Material type: BookPublisher: Munich ; London ; New York, NY : Boston : DelMonico Books : Prestel ; Institute of Contemporary Art, 2014Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783791353821 (hardback); 3791353829 (hardback).Subject(s): Soft sculpture -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 746Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 23/02/2024 | 00230014 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This lavish book documents the developments in the field of fiber-related art over the past half century. The 1960s saw a revolution in fiber art. Where once the focus was on knotting, twining, and coiling thread into works that were immediately recognizable, and therefore connected to utilitarian crafts, fiber artists of the later 20th-century began to experiment with abstract forms that were closer to sculpture than craft. Influenced by postmodernist ideas, these works are the product of experimentation with materials and technique while at the same time confronting important cultural issues. This book traces that development from the mid-twentieth century to the present. In the words of Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers, the expressive quality of fiber is essentially a "language of thread." That language is beautifully displayed in full-color spreads and individual illustrations in this book. Scholarly essays address the feminist movement of the 1970s; the expanded use of materials in the '80s and '90s; and the more recent employment of fiber as one more material in the creation of freestanding works. In addition to a section of full color illustrations, this book also includes profiles of all of the genre's most influential artists.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 1, 2014 - January 4, 2015; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, January 3 - April 5, 2015; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, May 8 - August 2, 2015; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, August 22 - November 29, 2015.
Artists included: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Olga de Amaral, Xenobia Bailey, Alexandra Bircken, Jagoda Buic, Alexander da Cunha, Ria van Eyk, Josh Faught, Elsi Giauque, Françoise Grossen, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Diane Itter, Ritzi and Peter Jacobi, Naomi Kobayashi, Beryl Korot, Ruth Laskey, Aurèlia Muñoz, Ernesto Neto, Sheila Pepe, Robert Rohm, Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Alan Shields, Sherri Smith, Jean Stamsta, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel, Piotr Ukla?ski, Faith Wilding, Anne Wilson, Haegue Yang, Claire Zeisler
Includes bibliographical references.
The materialists / Jenelle Porter -- Soft power / Glenn Adamson -- Tapestries in space : an alternative history of site-specificity / T\'ai Smith -- About 10 years : from the New Tapestry to fiber art / Jenelle Porter -- Artists / Sarah Parrish