Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor
Title Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor PDF eBook
Author Arthur C. Danto
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 424
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9780300116854

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This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years. Focusing on 100 Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, it includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.

Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks
Title Sheila Hicks PDF eBook
Author Joan Simon
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Hicks, Sheila, 1934---Themes, motives--Exhibitions
ISBN 9780300121643

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Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects & public commissions whose structures are built of colour & fibre. This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicks's work. It documents the divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use, & surprising range, of materials.

Heritage and Hate

Heritage and Hate
Title Heritage and Hate PDF eBook
Author Stephen M. Monroe
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 289
Release 2021-06
Genre Education
ISBN 0817320938

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"Explores how Ole Miss and other Southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of Southern words and symbols and "Old South" traditions, everything that publicly defines these communities--from anthems to buildings to flags to monuments to mascots"--

Finnish Modern Design

Finnish Modern Design
Title Finnish Modern Design PDF eBook
Author Marianne Aav
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 4
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9780300082807

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This beautiful book examines the design achievements of Finland over the past seven decades, focusing on the central and decisive role played by Modernism. It discusses the work of such renowned architects and designers as Alvar Aalto and Kaj Franck, as well as of manufacturers, including Arabia and Marimekko.

On Weaving

On Weaving
Title On Weaving PDF eBook
Author Anni Albers
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 214
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 9780486431925

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This survey of textile fundamentals and methods, written by the foremost textile artist of the 20th century, covers hand weaving and the loom, fundamental construction and draft notation, modified and composite weaves, early techniques of thread interlacing, interrelation of fiber and construction, tactile sensibility, and design. 9 color illustrations. 112 black-and-white plates.

Bauhaus Weaving Theory

Bauhaus Weaving Theory
Title Bauhaus Weaving Theory PDF eBook
Author T’ai Smith
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 290
Release 2014-11-01
Genre Art
ISBN 1452943222

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The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers. From colorful, expressionist tapestries to the invention of soundproofing and light-reflective fabric, the workshop’s innovative creations influenced a modernist theory of weaving. In the first careful examination of the writings of Bauhaus weavers, including Anni Albers, Gunta Stözl, and Otti Berger, Smith details how these women challenged assumptions about the feminine nature of their craft. As they harnessed the vocabulary of other disciplines like painting, architecture, and photography, Smith argues, the weavers resisted modernist thinking about distinct media. In parsing texts about tapestries and functional textiles, the vital role these women played in debates about medium in the twentieth century and a nuanced history of the Bauhaus comes to light. Bauhaus Weaving Theory deftly reframes the Bauhaus weaving workshop as central to theoretical inquiry at the school. Putting questions of how value and legitimacy are established in the art world into dialogue with the limits of modernism, Smith confronts the belief that the crafts are manual and technical but never intellectual arts.

Bruno Mathsson

Bruno Mathsson
Title Bruno Mathsson PDF eBook
Author Dag Widman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 82
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0300121911

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A complete survey of the life and work of master designer Bruno Mathsson, whose archetypal Modernist chair is admired worldwide The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark and have been in continuous production for more than fifty years. In his less familiar architectural work, Mathsson (1907-1988) applied the same principles of innovative comfortable living. Throughout his work the connections between design and ergonomics, aesthetics and innovative materials, energy saving and environmental concerns resonate for designers today. This book surveys Mathsson's output as an architect and designer as well as his relationships with American architects and designers including Frank Lloyd-Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Knoll. Extensive illustrations include unpublished photographs of his Mathsson's work in situ.