ISBN:
1472524993
,
1472530934
,
9781472524997
,
9781472530936
Language:
English
Pages:
255 S.
,
Ill
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
746.09/051
Keywords:
Fiberwork Social aspects
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Textile crafts Social aspects
;
Postcolonialism and the arts
;
Art and globalization
;
Fiberwork Social aspects
;
Textile crafts Social aspects
;
Postcolonialism and the arts
;
Art and globalization
;
Textilien
;
Mode
;
Design
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Kunst
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Globalisierung
;
Textilien
;
Mode
;
Design
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Kunst
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
"Cultural Threads considers contemporary examples of textile artists who work at the intersection of multiple cultural influences and use crafts as their vehicle. The roots of postcolonial theory lie in literature and have, in the past, been communicated through dense academic jargon. This book aims to break with the impenetrable rhetoric and instead show the rich visual diversity of craft and art that engages with multiple cultural influences. Postcolonial ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which in reality result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, are pertinent to society today more than ever. So too are the multiple, often overlooked, histories behind the objects that make up our material world. Many of these objects exist in an in-between world of their own, not wholly embraced by the establishments of art, nor functional objects in the conventional sense of craft. Cultural Threads is an exploration of modern textile art and its relationship with postcolonial culture; however, the postcolonial thinking examined here shares with craft an interest in the lived, rather than the purely theoretical, and as such is a very human account of these interactions between craft and culture"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:IntroductionChapter One: Artists' StatementsJulie Ryder: Reflections on Charles Darwin's South Pacific (Australia)Jorge Lizarazo and Hechizoo: Columbian Voyages and Explorations (Columbia)Cecilia Vicuña: QUIPUing from Santiago, Chile to Sydney, Australia (Chile)Elaine Reichek: Revisiting a Postcolonial Kinderhood in America (USA)Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody: African Design Exported (South Africa)Chapter Two: Dutch Wax Resist Textiles: Roger Gerards, Creative Director of Vlisco, and Jessica Hemmings (National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)Chapter Three: An Imagined Africa: Stories told by Contemporary Textiles, Jessica Hemmings (National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)Chapter Four: Weaving, Tradition and Tourism in Ghana: "The End of Skill", Mamle Kabu (Ghana)Chapter Five: Can Pakeha Make Customary Maori Art? A Conversation in New Zealand with Weaver Margaret White, Damian Skinner (New Zealand)Chapter Six: Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora, Christine Checinska (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)Chapter Seven: From Brixton to Mostar: Social Practice Through Textiles, Françoise Dupré (Birmingham City University, UK)Chapter Eight: A Post-Slavery Reading of Cotton: Lubaina Himid (University of Central Lancashire, UK) in conversation with Sabine Broeck and Alice Schmid (both of the University of Bremen, Germany) Chapter Nine: Contemporary Textile Imagery in Southern Africa: a Question of Ownership, Sarah Rhodes (Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)Chapter Ten: Social Sutra: A Platform for Ethical Textiles in Partnerships Between Australia and India, Kevin Murray (Australia)Index.
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