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An Interview With Stacey M. Holloway, Kerr Houston 2018 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

An Interview With Stacey M. Holloway, Kerr Houston

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Radical Reconfiguration: Appropriation, Assemblage, And Masked Hybridity In Jean Dubuffet’S Postwar Portraits, Stephanie Chadwick 2018 Lamar University

Radical Reconfiguration: Appropriation, Assemblage, And Masked Hybridity In Jean Dubuffet’S Postwar Portraits, Stephanie Chadwick

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Native Art Now!: Developments In Contemporary Native American Art Since 1992, Marina Tyquiengco 2018 University of Pittsburgh

Native Art Now!: Developments In Contemporary Native American Art Since 1992, Marina Tyquiengco

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Democratising Beauty In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art And The Politics Of Public Life, Toby Norris 2018 Assumption College

Democratising Beauty In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art And The Politics Of Public Life, Toby Norris

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Review of Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life, by Lucy Hartley.


Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, Alyssa Bralower 2018 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, Alyssa Bralower

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Boredom, Mysoon Rizk 2018 University of Toledo

Boredom, Mysoon Rizk

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Review of Boredom, edited by Tom McDonough.


Cristóbal De Villalpando: Mexican Painter Of The Baroque, Lisandra Estevez 2018 Winston-Salem State University

Cristóbal De Villalpando: Mexican Painter Of The Baroque, Lisandra Estevez

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No Spectators: The Art Of Burning Man; No Spectators: Beyond The Renwick; City Of Dust: The Evolution Of Burning Man, Andrew Wasserman 2018 University of North Carolina Greensboro

No Spectators: The Art Of Burning Man; No Spectators: Beyond The Renwick; City Of Dust: The Evolution Of Burning Man, Andrew Wasserman

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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, Marjorie Och 2018 University of Mary Washington

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, Marjorie Och

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Manet: A Symbolic Revolution Pierre Bourdieu, Claire Raymond 2018 University of Virginia

Manet: A Symbolic Revolution Pierre Bourdieu, Claire Raymond

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Review of Manet: A Symbolic Revolution, by Pierre Bourdieu.


Back Matter, 2018 Virginia Commonwealth University

Back Matter

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Italian Bedfellows: Tristan, Solomon & “Bestes”, Kathryn Berenson 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Italian Bedfellows: Tristan, Solomon & “Bestes”, Kathryn Berenson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Two surviving late fourteenth-century quilted furnishings, the Coperta Guicciardini in the Museo Nazinale del Bargello, Florence, and the Tristan Quilt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, depict scenes from the legend of Tristan, one of King Arthur’s knights. Both museums attribute the furnishings to a southern Italian atelier. Research to-date essentially treats these works as if, like Athena from the head of Zeus, they burst complete. Yet by the twelfth century Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Norman occupation and active trade with the Levant, all had contributed to the culture of southern Italy. Prime evidence is the mosaic floor, dated …


Whitework: The Cloth And Call To Action, Sonja Dahl 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Whitework: The Cloth And Call To Action, Sonja Dahl

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the newly independent colonies of the American Northeast, styles of white-on-white quilting and embroidery became popular among women coming of age. Considered the epitome of their needleworking skills, whitework required patience, time, focus, precision, and a steady hand. Such detailed stitchwork on pure white cotton-then a booming industry in the American South-prepared these young women to make homes that were meaningful, full of symbolism and care. Drawing analogy between these historic textiles and current movements for decolonization and anti-racism, this talk expands the term Whitework to function as a call to action, for both myself and other white-identified scholars …


The Techniques Of Samitum. Based On A Reconstruction Of A Silk From The Oseberg Burial, Åse Eriksen 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The Techniques Of Samitum. Based On A Reconstruction Of A Silk From The Oseberg Burial, Åse Eriksen

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A collection of samitum was found in the Norwegian Viking burial Osebert (834 CE) in 2014. I got the opportunity to study some of the fragments and could reconstruct a nearly full pattern unit from six narrow bands, once cut from the same fabric. I wove a small piece of this fabric in my ordinary flatloom, using both modern dyestuff and fabric spun silk material. Fragments found in Egypt from 400 AD show that both tapestry and taquete were woven in the same fabric. When searching for the loom used for the original samitum fabric, I made a vertical warp …


Indian Basketry In Yosemite Valley, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists And The National Park Service, Catherine K. Hunter 2018 Boxborough, MA

Indian Basketry In Yosemite Valley, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists And The National Park Service, Catherine K. Hunter

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Basketry is the highest art form of Native Americans in California. I will focus on Yosemite Valley starting in the 1850s when Native Americans adapted progressively to contact with miners, settlers, and tourists. As a Research Associate at the Peabody Museum, Andover, Massachusetts, I inventoried the Native American Basket Collection. The unpublished Hutchings Mills Collection, acquired by Gertrude ‘Cosie’ Hutchings in Yosemite prior to 1900, caught my attention. In 1986, the Department of the Interior requested the collection be loaned, exchanged, or purchased as “the single most important assemblage from that period.” The collection did not leave Andover; however, one …


Shepherds And Shawls: Making Place In The Western Himalayas, Jennifer Hoover 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Shepherds And Shawls: Making Place In The Western Himalayas, Jennifer Hoover

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Cars weave through the flocks of the Gaddi shepherds as they travel from the plains to high altitude deserts, winding along roads lined with shops selling Kullu shawls. In these ways and more, textiles are the face of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Yet dominant discourses position both the shepherds and weavers of the region as the last hold-outs of endangered traditions. These discourses continue colonial-era assumptions of rural artisans as “primitives” in need of either protection from encroaching industrialization or motivation to modernize. Academic writings, popular visual representations, and government policies also reinforce monolithic identities of herders …


Threads, Twist And Fibre: Looking At Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa 2018 Vancouver Island University

Threads, Twist And Fibre: Looking At Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Coast Salish textiles are: remarkable for their quality; unusual in the fibres used; notable in their designs; singular in the innovative processes used to manufacture them. Salish textiles were determined by geography, shaped by trade, and influenced by colonization. That the textile tradition has survived is a reflection of the prestige they hold and the importance of the textiles in the Coast Salish culture. Relatively unknown and underappreciated, the older textiles deserve to be looked at with fresh eyes and modern methods that bring to light the outstanding abilities of the Coast Salish women in the creation of these important …


Ancient, Indigenous And Iconic Textile Motifs In Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts Through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance And Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde 2018 SOAS, London University

Ancient, Indigenous And Iconic Textile Motifs In Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts Through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance And Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper investigates the material and visual characteristics of certain ancient and historical textile motifs with roots in Chinese and African culture, and their sudden appearance in new geographical and cultural context. Appropriated into western contemporary textile and fashion trends, this paper examines the new roles of these designs in context of foreigness, identity, and hybridity. Their consumption and reception both within and beyond their original cultures is a central theme, and it is evident that their reception in both locations, although different, exhibits some similarities. Exploring the transcultural consumption and reception that occurs in various cultural locations this paper …


Nd’Awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’Elasawawôganôl: “We Wear The Clothing Of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Nd’Awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’Elasawawôganôl: “We Wear The Clothing Of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

When thinking of Native American people, a typical image is of tanned people with long dark hair wearing leather and furs in the distant past, but that is not an accurate depiction of the Abenaki people or their textiles. As an Abenaki scholar, artist, and educator, my research into the textile traditions of the Abenaki people includes archaeological evidence, primary resources, and oral history interviews. Abenakis themselves have different ideas of what it traditional because textile and fiber arts evolved over many millennia throughout N’dakinna, the Abenaki homeland which once encompassed Vermont, New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts, and parts of New …


Manipulating The Threads Of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler 2018 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Manipulating The Threads Of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Deeply anchored in her practice of shaping and manipulating fibre are both the aesthetic integral to Yvonne Wakabayashi’s Japanese heritage and the inspiration of the natural environment she finds along the shores of her own birth place, Canada’s west coast. Wakabayashi’s journey to find her authentic voice in her varied textile works, engaged both historical craft practices of Japan and printmaking processes of the West. Most importantly, it led to the discovery of shibori with its ancestral links and innovative contemporary possibilities. This paper explores how an individual artist embraces her artistic cultural identity that also negotiates the upheaval wrought …


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