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Author Auther, Elissa.

Title String, felt, thread : the hierarchy of art and craft in American art / Elissa Auther.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
©2010

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 Moore Stacks  TT699 .A98 2010    Available  ---
Description xxx, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1: Fiber art and the struggle for legitimacy: The category of fiber art -- Cultural definitions of textiles and the bauhaus weavers -- Fiber and women's work -- Fiber art, the craft revival of the 1960s and 1970s, and popular craft -- The critical reception of fiber art in the 1960s and 1970s -- Mildred Constantine and the battle for fiber art -- 2: Process art, postminimalism, and materiality: Felt in the work of Robert Morris -- The critical reception of the felts -- String, rope, and cord in the work of Eva Hesse -- The reception of Hesse's work in fiber -- Fiber, tactility, and the boundary between art and non-art -- 3: The feminist politicization of the art/craft divide: Promises and problems of the feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft -- Faith Ringgold: "A painter who works in the quilt medium" -- Miriam Schapiro: "The quiet revolution" -- Ringgold, Schapiro, and the art world's appropriation of quilting -- Harmony Hammond: the mythic space of the "feminine stitch" -- Judy Chicago: the vitality of embroidery -- Conclusion: fiber, craft, and contemporary art.
Subject Fiberwork -- United States.
Fiberwork.
United States.
Art and society -- United States.
Art and society.
Handicraft -- Social aspects -- United States.
Handicraft -- Social aspects.
Handicraft.
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