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OverviewTextile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than parallel modes. This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the language and materiality of textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making. Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the material behaviours and philosophical language of folding, shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven together. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Dormor (Westminster School of Arts, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts Weight: 0.378kg ISBN: 9781472525659ISBN 10: 1472525655 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 10 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Textile as Making: techne between practice and theory Weaving the Chapters (Inter)mingling Chapter One: Folding An Unfolding of Making Metaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking Textile-Space La Maison Baroque Folding-Seaming-Fraying Chapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface Veils: a space of scintillation Faintly Gleaming Illicit Encounters Absurdity Through the Looking Glass Chapter Three: Seaming Seaming as Passage Hand & Machine Stitching Seaming as Suturing Seaming as Trace Conjunctions & Crossings Chapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance Attacking the Boundary Collapsing Boundaries Flow Ontological Secretions A substance between two states Chapter Five: Fraying Frayed and Fraying: a politics of translation Frayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingent To the Edge: pointing away from the centre Worn Through Fraying Chapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/Object Affective Touching Proximity Opening Out-Becoming Measuring Distance First Actions of Hands Synoptic-Synesthetic Caressing Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe bibliography is extensive, giving an interesting insight into the metaphorical use of the words that textiles have made to the language. * Book Threads * Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold “theory” and “practice” as one. * Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland * Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold theory and practice as one. <i>Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland</i> Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold theory and practice as one. Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland Author InformationCatherine Dormor is a practising artist, Reader in Textile Practices and Head of Research Programmes and at the Royal College of Art, London UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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