Overview

This exciting journal brings together research in textiles in an innovative and distinctive academic forum, and will be of interest to all those who share a multifaceted view of textiles within an expanded field. Representing a dynamic and wide-ranging set of critical practices, it provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice -- all situated within the broader contexts of material and visual culture.

Full Product Details

Author:   Doran Ross ,  Catherine Harper
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v.5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.217kg
ISBN:  

9781847882202

ISBN 10:   184788220
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Dialog Pecha Cucha: Lace Catherine Harper Commemorative Textiles and Anglican Church History in Ondo, Nigeria Tunde M. Akinwumi and Elisha P. Renne Review The Critical Space of Feminist Art: Andrea Zittel and WACK! at MOCA Jane Chin Davidson Exhibition Review Traditional Skills, New Thinking: Stitching and Knitting for the Twenty-first Century Christine Elliott Grey Exhibition Review Pricked: Extreme Embroidery Julie Reiss Exhibition Review Senga Nengudi: Warp Trance. The Fabric Workshop and Museum Molly Purnell Exhibition Review Meshed Messages: The Woven Photographs of Dinh Q. Le Eleanor Ray Book Reviews Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador. and Andean Textile Traditions. Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum. Reviewed by Penelope Dransart The Modernist Textile: Europe and America 1890 - 1940 and Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia Reviewed by Sue Maton Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection Reviewed by Teri Klassen Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society and First Aid for the Excavation of Archeological Textiles Reviewed by Sue Harrington

Reviews

Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'Times Higher Education'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dare to move

Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005 'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.' Times Higher Education 'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.' Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar 'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dare to move

Author Information

Catherine Harper, Head of the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton. Doran Ross, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.

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