Jools (Hrsg.) Gilson

Textiles, Community and Controversy

The Knitting Map

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Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in contemporary textile art practices, as both process and object. Created by more than 2,000 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, The Knitting Map became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history, Textiles, Community and Controversy locates the work within a context of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Moffat, Nicola (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-350-02753-4
EAN: 9781350027534
Produktnummer: 29406254
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 15'025 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 60 colour illus

Über den Autor

Jools Gilson is Professor of Creative Practice at University College Cork, Ireland. She is a transdisciplinary artist and award-winning radio broadcaster. She directed the textile art project The Knitting Map from 2003-2005, and has written and presented on the work internationally. Nicola Moffat is an independent scholar, poet and artist who lives and practises in Cork, Ireland. She has published articles in several journals and edited collections, and her poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is a regular contributor to Ó Bheál, Cork's longest running open mic night and to events organised in support of Fired! Irish Women Poets.