Full Description
In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies.
The handbook offers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles' relationships to history, memory, place, and social and technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and contemporary textile art practice.
This illustrated volume will be essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion, feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history.
Cover image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014. Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC. Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.
Contents
Preface, Anne Wilson
Section 1: Textiles in the Expanded Field
Introduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
1. New Approaches to Textile Design, Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School for Design, USA
2. Views from Australia and the Asia Pacific, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia
3. Curating Textiles: Stuff That Matters, Sara Martinetti, France, Alice Motard, Raven Row, UK, Alex Sainsbury, Raven Row, UK, and Seth Siegelaub (deceased)
4. Textiles and Architecture, Bradley Quinn, USA
5. Patchworking Ways of Knowing and Making, Kristina Lindstrom and Asa Stahl, Malmo University, Sweden
6. Making Known: The Textiles Toolbox - Psychoanalysis of Seven Types of Textile Thinking, Claire Pajaczkowska, Royal College of Art, UK
Section 2: Textile, Narrative, Identity, Archive
Introduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
7. Binding Autobiographies: A Jewishing Cloth, Katya Oicherman, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel
8. Materials, Memories and Metaphors: The Textile Self Re/collected, Solveigh Goett, University of East London, UK
9. Archives of Cloth: Shadows of the Past in Re-Visioning Textiles, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia
10. Lived Lives: Materializing Stories of Young Irish Suicide, Seamus McGuinness, Ireland
Section 3: Textiles and Globalization
Introduction, Hazel Clark, Parsons, The New School for Design, USA
11. Performing Globalization in the Textile Industry: Anne Wilson and Mandy Cano Villalobos, Lisa Vinebaum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
12. Changing Perceptions of Curatorial Practice in South Asian and Commonwealth Textiles, Jasleen Dhamija, India
13. Quilts for the Twenty-First Century: Activism in the Expanded Field of Quilting, Kirsty Mairi Robertson, University of Western Ontario, Canada
14. Transforming Malaysian Hand Woven Songket in the Contemporary World, June Ngo Siok Kheng, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
15. Creative Resilience Thinking in Textiles and Fashion, Mathilda Tham, Beckmans College of Design, Sweden
16. Use Your Illusion: Dazzle, Deceit and the 'Vicious Problem' of Textiles and Fashion, Otto von Busch, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Section 4: Textiles and the Curatorial Turn
Introduction, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
17. Curating Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance, Matilda McQuaid, Cooper Hewitt, USA
18. Social Fabric: Textiles, Art, Society and Politics, Christine Checinska, University of East London, UK and Grant Watson, Institute of International Visual Arts, UK
19. Innovation in Australian Indigenous Fibre, Margie West, Australia
20. Kaunas Biennial: Spindling from Textile to Public Culture, Ed Carroll, Blue Drum, Ireland
21. A Global Stage: Curating Textiles from the Asia Pacific, Ruth McDougall, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
22. Envisioning Fibre in the Cultural Heritage of Hangzhou, China, Shi Hui and Xu Jia, China Academy of Art, China
23. The Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials 1962-1995, Giselle Eberhard Cotton, Fondation Toms Pauli, Switzerland
Section 5: Textile Technologies and the Sensorial Turn
Introduction, Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, Australia
24. The Fabric of Memory - Towards the Ontology of Contemporary Textiles, Sara Diamond, OCAD University, Canada
25. Indigo Dyeing in the Land of Its Origin: History Unknown, Smritikumar Sarkar, University of Burdwan, India
26. Feeling: Sensing the Affectivity of Emotional Politics Through Textiles, Agnieszka Golda, University of Wollongong, Australia
27. Reviving Kapiak: Understanding the Material Identity of Barkcloth in a Melanesian Society, Graeme Were, University of Queensland, Australia
Section 6: Developments in the Field of Textiles, Cloth and Culture
Interviews with Annet Couwenberg, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Valerie Kirk, Kay Lawrence, Judith Leeman, Sara Lindsay, Joan Livingstone, Rowland Ricketts, Patrick Segura, Jenni Sorkin, Lisa Vinebaum, Fo Wilson and Anne Wilson
Bibliography
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