The textile reader : ed. by Jessica Hemmings
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London [u.a.] :
Bloomsbury,
2012
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| Ausgabe: | Engl. ed., 1. publ. |
| Online Zugang: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc%5Flibrary=BVB01&local%5Fbase=BVB01&doc%5Fnumber=025203599&sequence=000002&line%5Fnumber=0001&func%5Fcode=DB%5FRECORDS&service%5Ftype=MEDIA |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Touch - Textiles, text and techne - Freud, fabric, fetish - Meditation on translations and seduction - The blank page - Sense and sensibility - Continuity of touch-textile as silent witness - 2. Memory - Stain: on cloth, stigma, and shame - Considering the evidence - Worn worlds: clothes, mourning and the life of things - Collecting the contemporary: 'Love will decide what is kept and science will decide how it is kept - The parody of the motley cadaver: displaying the funeral of fashion - Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief - 3. Structure - Invisible cities - Reflexive textile - Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots - Piecing and writing - Testing orthodoxy: collecting, the gaze, knitting the impossible - 1440: the smooth and the striated - Folds, fragments, surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth - Statement VI - 4. Politics - Weaving as metaphor and model for political thought - Fiber art and the hierarchy of art and craft, 1960-80 -^; Tapestry and identity in Australia - Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence - Arachne's genre: towards inter-cultural studies in textiles - Setting the stage: Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Anthony Downey - Culture - 100% cotton - Lisa Anne Auerbach's canny domesticity - The subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine - The yellow wallpaper - 5. Production - A tradition with a reason - Zeroes + one: digital women & the new technoculture - Open source embroidery: curatorial facilitation of material networks - Embroidery pirates and fashion victims: textiles, c raft and copyright - The romance of modern manufacture-A brief history of embroidered embellishment - Artist's statement - Upcycling textiles: adding value through design - Constructing textiles - Biocouture or how to grow a frock - 6. Use - Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter - Knitting is - De-coding the hierarchy of fashion textiles -^; The Scarlet Letter - Everyday use |
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| Beschreibung: | XXI, 463 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84788-635-4 1-84788-635-3 (hardback) 978-1-84788-634-7 (paper) 1-84788-634-5 (paper) |
| Signatur: | KT R W Hem |