Full Description
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is primarily known for her foundational work in queer and affect theory, but her artistic work with textiles remains largely unexplored. In Reparative Craft, Jason Edwards examines a range of her textile art from a ten-year period in which she was also writing Touching Feeling. Employing the reparative approach that Sedgwick pioneered and analyzing her works from a series of four exhibitions, Reparative Craft demonstrates the necessity of connecting Sedgwick's fiber art practice to her work as a theorist. Richly illustrated and presented in full color, this volume invites readers to connect Sedgwick's art with her theory, presenting a new model of reparative reading that exemplifies ideas of queer and trans craft so vital to Sedgwick's body of work.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction. Reparative Craft 1
1. The First Four Pages of a Texture Book (ca.1996-1999) 13
2. A Weft Is Being Beaten, or Weaving in the Cybernetic Fold (1996-1999) 33
3. Floating Columns (1999-2000) 49
4. In the Bardo (1999-2000), or Epistemology of a Different Closet 75
5. Bodhisattva Fractal World (2002) 119
6. Works in Fiber, Paper, and Proust (2005) 201
Coda. An Inward Accumulation of a Wealth of Materials 269
Acknowledgments 275
Notes 277
Bibliography 297
Index
