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CULTURAL THREADS: TRANSNATIONAL TEXTILES TODAY By Jessica Hemmings **Excellent**

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ISBN-10
1472530934
Book Title
Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today
ISBN
9781472530936

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1472530934
ISBN-13
9781472530936
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202520576

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Cultural Threads : Transnational Textiles Today
Language
English
Subject
Textile & Costume, Fiber Arts & Textiles
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, Crafts & Hobbies
Author
Not Available
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
37 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
8.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2014-004297
Reviews
Cultural Threads sits comfortably between the mainstream and The Academe, occupying an intriguing intersection between worlds and migration stories ... [It] is skillfully designed with large format eye-catching imagery . Collectively, such a text can develop new art audiences excited for the worlds of surface design and textile arts.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
746.09/051
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter One: Artists' StatementsJulie Ryder: Reflections on Charles Darwin's South Pacific (Australia)Jorge Lizarazo and Hechizoo: Colombian Voyages and Explorations (Colombia)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 and Damian Skinner (New Zealand) Chapter Six: Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora, Christine Checinska (University of East 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 Saint 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
Synopsis
Cultural Threads considers contemporary artists and designers who work at the intersection of cultures and use textiles as their vehicle. Ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which can result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere, are more pertinent to society today than ever. So too are the layers of history - often overlooked - behind the objects that make up our material world. The roots of postcolonial theory lie in literature and have, in the past, been communicated through dense academic jargon. Cultural Threads breaks with what can read as impenetrable rhetoric to show the rich visual diversity of craft and art that engages with multiple cultural influences. 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 contemporary textiles and their relationship with postcolonial culture. However, the postcolonial thinking examined here shares with craft an interest in the lived, rather than the purely theoretical, giving a very human account of the interactions in between craft and culture., 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.
LC Classification Number
N6494.F47C85 2014

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