Textiles, Community and Controversy - The Knitting Map

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 explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in contemporary textile art practices, as both process and object. Created by more than 2,000 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, T he 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.

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• Authors: Jools Gilson, Jools (University College Cork Gilson, Nicola Moffat
• Assisted by: Jools Gilson (Editor), Jools (University College Cork Gilson (Editor), Nicola Moffat (Editor), Nicola (University College Cork Moffat (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781350027510
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02751-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, ART / History / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Textile artworks, History of fashion, Fashion and textile design