Stitching the Self
Identity and the Needle Arts
$64.68
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2021
Summary
The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities – social, political, and often non-conformist – are crafted.
Bringing together the work of ten art and craft historians, this illustrated collection focuses on the interplay between craft and artistry, amateurism and professionalism, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350242418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350242411 |
| Author: | Johanna Amos, Lisa Binkley |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
I found it fascinating … the reading [is] intriguing and varied. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in Art History as it relates to textiles. * Book Threads Magazine *
Stitching the Self considers historical textiles and the lives that made them. Diverse examples – from the English Bloomsbury group to a Swiss psychiatric asylum – show how textile making has long been used as an effective tool to craft personal and group identities. * Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden *
Needles are evocative tools of material expression. This collection reveals the freighted history and practice of needlework, whose signal importance is demonstrated across this engrossing volume. Makers from varied circumstances are showcased in compelling ways, challenging categories of artistic production. * Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada *
A diverse range of essays which richly illustrate the importance of needlecrafts in forging, reconstituting, recovering and reclaiming individual and collective identifies. Focusing on Europe and North America, the authors illuminate hidden histories, challenge gender stereotypes and disrupt art/craft and professional/amateur binaries. * Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *
Johanna Amos
Johanna Amos is Assistant Professor (adjunct) of art, textile, and fashion history at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
Lisa Binkley is Assistant Professor in Material Culture, and Indigenous and Settler Women’s Histories in the Department of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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