Philosophy of Textile
Philosophy of Textile Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than…
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Philosophy of Textile
Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than parallel modes.This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the language and materiality of textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous materials in their work.
Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, H l ne Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of