String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the “low” world of craft to the “high” world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence this day of a craft counterculture. In this full-color illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art-craft divide.
Drawn to the aesthetic possibilities and symbolic power of fiber, the artists whose work is explored here-Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Claire Zeisler, Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold, and others-experimented with materials that previously had been dismissed for their associations with the merely decorative, with “arts and crafts,” and with “women’s work.” In examining this shift and these exceptional artists’ works, Auther engages far-reaching debates in the art world: What accounts for the distinction between art and craft? Who assigns value to these categories, and who polices the boundaries distinguishing them?
String, Felt, Thread not only illuminates the centrality of fiber to contemporary artistic practice but also uncovers the social dynamics-including the roles of race and gender-that determine how art has historically been defined and valued.
Author : Elissa Auther
Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 709.7309045
Edition : Original
Feature : ISBN13: 9780816656097, Condition: NEW, Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Feature : ISBN13: 9780816656097
ISBN : 0816656096
Label : Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer : Univ Of Minnesota Press
NumberOfPages : 280
PublicationDate : 2009-12-21
Publisher : Univ Of Minnesota Press
Studio : Univ Of Minnesota Press
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