Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map by Gilson, Jools

Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350027527)

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Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map by Gilson, Jools

Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map

$34.95
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map by Gilson, Jools

Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It examines the multiple and often contradictory meanings within contemporary textile artworks, and the process of making them.

Created by more than 2,500 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, The Knitting Map became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history, Textiles, Community and Controversy locates the work within a context of feminist arts practice, including the work of Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold and the Guerilla Girls.

Bringing together leading art critics and textile scholars, including Lucy Lippard, Jessica Hemmings and Joanne Turney, the collection explores key issues in textile practice from gender, class and nation to technology and performance.

Author: Jools Gilson
ISBN-10: 1350027529
ISBN-13: 9781350027527
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.60d
By Jools Gilson
By Jools Gilson
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Jools Gilson is a transdisciplinary artist, scholar and Professor of Creative Practice at University College Cork, Ireland, in addition to an award-winning radio broadcaster. She directed the textile art project The Knitting Map from 2003-5, and has written and presented on the work internationally.

Nicola Moffat is an independent scholar, poet and artist who lives and practises in Cork, Ireland. She has published articles in several journals and edited collections, and her poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is a regular contributor to Ó Bheál, Cork's longest running open mic night and to events organised in support of Fired! Irish Women Poets.

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