The Fine Art Of Textiles

Author : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher : Philadelphia Museum (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fine Art of Textiles written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four hundred textiles from East and West are reproduced in full color in this handbook of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's encyclopedic collections, which cover a broad range of geographic areas, periods, and techniques. Each chapter is introduced by a brief history of that particular aspect of the museum's collections, placing it within the context of textile scholarship and collecting in the United States and Europe.

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John E. Vollmer
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874397396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-envisioning Japan written by John E. Vollmer and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-envisioning Japan is the first truly comprehensive book on Japanese export textiles of the Meiji period (1868-1912), featuring stunning examples from all over the country. Lavishly illustrated, the book features fabrics that explore the craftsmanship and remarkable talent of Meiji artists and artisans who produced goods for export markets. The makers of Meiji textiles sought to modernize traditional modes of visual representation, aspiring to create "paintings in silk thread," at times even replicating specific Western paintings. More often, they collaborated with contemporary Japanese painters to create dazzling new images that more than ever before realized the aesthetic potential of silk thread as an artistic medium. This book showcases these spectacular ornamental textiles in dazzling color reproductions and many close-up details.

Author : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876331163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fine Art of Textiles written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents almost 400 years of textiles from the East and the West. It includes a section on the Americas, Europe, the Mediterranean, Middle East, Japan and India.

Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textile & Fashion Arts written by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents one hundred of the finest textiles and fashion arts produced by weavers, embroiderers, and designers around the globe. Twenty-nine short essays introduce some of the major techniques and genres that textile makers have invented over the past twenty-five hundred years of human history.--[book cover].

Author : Janis Jefferies
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906155292
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Textiles written by Janis Jefferies and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at emerging artists from one of the most exciting mediums in the fine art world today, that profiles some of the most daring and innovative examples of textiles in fine art.

Author : Julia Bryan-Wilson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226077829
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fray written by Julia Bryan-Wilson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—Fray explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval. Closely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. Her case studies from the 1970s through the 1990s—including the improvised costumes of the theater troupe the Cockettes, the braided rag rugs of US artist Harmony Hammond, the thread-based sculptures of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, the small hand-sewn tapestries depicting Pinochet’s torture, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt—are often taken as evidence of the inherently progressive nature of handcrafted textiles. Fray, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labor, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fiber means that textiles can be activated, or stretched, in many ideological directions. The first contemporary art history book to discuss both fine art and amateur registers of handmaking at such an expansive scale, Fray unveils crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616738545
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1000 Artisan Textiles written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pamela Parmal
Publisher : MFA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780878468768
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabric of a Nation written by Pamela Parmal and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A Diné women weaves a blanket for a U.S. Army soldier stationed in the Southwest. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than four hundred years, the fifty-six works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Made by Americans of European, African, Native, and Hispanic heritage, these engaging works of art range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell.

Author : Mary Schoeser
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500777799
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Textiles written by Mary Schoeser and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of textiles, more than that of any other artefact, is a history of human ingenuity. From the very earliest needles of 50,000 years ago to the smart textiles of today, textiles have been fundamental to human existence, and enjoyed, prized and valued by every culture. Silks from China, cottons from India, tapestries from Flanders, dyes from South America the appeal of different weaves, colours and patterns was long a motivation for trade, the exchange of ideas and sometimes even war. Mary Schoesers groundbreaking book, now revised and updated to incorporate new research, presents a chronological survey of textiles around the world from prehistory to the present. It explores how they are made, what they are made from, how they function in society and the ways in which they are valued and given meaning as well as reflecting on the environmental challenges they present today. World Textiles offers an invaluable introduction to this vast and fascinating subject for makers, designers, textile and fashion professionals, collectors and students alike.