String, Felt, Thread : : the Hierarchy of art and Craft in American art
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1: Fiber art and the struggle for legitimacy: The category of fiber art -- Cultural definitions of textiles and the bauhaus weavers -- Fiber and women's work -- Fiber art, the craft revival of the 1960s and 1970s, and popular craft -- The critical reception of fiber art in the 1960s and 1970s -- Mildred Constantine and the battle for fiber art -- 2: Process art, postminimalism, and materiality: Felt in the work of Robert Morris -- The critical reception of the felts -- String, rope, and cord in the work of Eva Hesse -- The reception of Hesse's work in fiber -- Fiber, tactility, and the boundary between art and non-art -- 3: The feminist politicization of the art/craft divide: Promises and problems of the feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft -- Faith Ringgold: "A painter who works in the quilt medium" -- Miriam Schapiro: "The quiet revolution" -- Ringgold, Schapiro, and the art world's appropriation of quilting -- Harmony Hammond: the mythic space of the "feminine stitch" -- Judy Chicago: the vitality of embroidery -- Conclusion: fiber, craft, and contemporary art.
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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xxx, 247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780816656097
0816656096
SUBJECTS
Fiberwork.
Art -- Social aspects.
Handicraft -- Social aspects.