String, Felt, Thread - The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Paperback
String, Felt, Thread - The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Paperback String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread,…
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String, Felt, Thread - The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Paperback
String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. In this full-color illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art-craft divide.Drawn to the aesthetic possibilities and symbolic power of fiber, the artists whose work is explored here-Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Claire Zeisler, Miriam Schapiro, Faith Ringgold, and others-experimented with materials that previously had been dismissed for their associations with the merely decorative, with "arts and crafts," and with "women's work." In analyzing this shift and these
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