Art & textiles : fabric as material and concept in modern art from Klimt to the present /
This opulently designed volume looks at the dialogue between art and craft over the past century-plus. It compares works by Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, Chiharu Shiota, Sergei Jensen and others to historical textiles from centuries past. Interdisciplinary essays provide ext...
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Ostfildern :
Hatje Cantz,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the exhibition : the birth of abstraction from the spirit of the textile and the conquest of the fabric space / Markus Brüderlin
- Mythology and aesthetics of the textile / Hartmut Böhme
- Cloth and consciousness : our deep connections : on the social and spiritual significance of the textile / Beverly Gordon
- ON the cultural anthropology of the textile / Ulrich Heinen in conversation with Bazon Brock
- Architecture in the age of disentangled authorship : textile impulses since the sixties / Emmanuel Petit
- Unfolding textile spaces : antiquity/modern period / Tristan Weddigen
- Catalogue : From Klimt to Matisse: painting wants to become textile, textile wants to become painting, circa 1900, Art Nouveau and the fertile interweaving of art and applied art ; The birth of abstraction from the spirit of the textile, 1914-33 : Weaving and invention before and during the Bauhaus period ; The "un-winding": liberating the thread from the image into space, the fifties and today: art informer and the birth of fiber art ; Joseph Beuys and the fabric of the social, the sixties and seventies : felt, Fluxus, anti-form ; Soft bodies and inner textile worlds, the sixties, seventies, and today : soft art and Arte Povera ; Texture : the surface of space, the sixties and seventies: minimal art and postminimalism ; Global art and the universality of the textile : Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Orient, and the West : between cultures ; Spiderwomen : Bourgeois, Trockel, Hatoum, Amer ; Fabrics between material and spirit : the preserving, healing, and maltreated canvas ; ArchiTextile : clothed walls from the middle ages to today ; Networks : from mummy shroud to the world wide web
- Essays : Fabrics and painting: the interaction between fine and applied art around 1900: a European movement / Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm
- Spiderwomen : violability, vulnerability, and analogous stitching : the reevaluation of gender-specific clichés / Julia Wallner
- Textile turning points : on the role of material and concept in contemporary art / Uta Ruhkamp ; Caught in the tangle of the net : on a history of the network metaphor / Birgit Schneider
- Global art : how can intercultural dialogue be staged in an exhibition context? / Markus Brüderlin
- The thread running between textile art and painting : an exhibition curator's journey among cultures / Jean-Hubert Martin.