Unravelling Women’s Art

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A unique overview of women’s textile art production including embroidery, weaving, soft sculpture and more looking at the extraordinary women who blur the boundaries between fine art and crafts. Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textile artists, providing insight into their practices, themes and personal motivations. Full colour with dozens of new and original images of the featured women artists’ work.

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The author unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities and representations.Entertaining as well as informative, this book offers a unique overview of female-centric textile art production including embroidery, weaving, soft sculpture and more.Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textile artists, providing fascinating insights into their practices, themes and personal motivation.Tells us:How knitting became a spying device in wartimeWhy dress design was so important for the SuffragettesWhy spiders were emblems in ancient times and nowHow women’s arts and crafts moved from the backroom to the gallery showroom

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Weight 696 g
Dimensions 24.4 × 16.8 × 1.7 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

279

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

746.082 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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