Sheila Hicks Fifty Years (Addison Gallery of American Art) - Hardcover

Joan Simon; Whitney Chadwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300121644 ISBN 13: 9780300121643

Publisher: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2010

Synopsis

Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of color and fiber. ThisA volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicksa??s work; it documents the remarkable versatility and dramatically divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use, and surprising range, of materials. Hicks deliberately and provocatively engages what are often considered mutually exclusive domains, rethinking and pushing the limits of generally accepted contexts, conditions, and frameworks. These include distinct objects and temporal, performative actions; studio works and commissions for public buildings; and textiles made in artisanal workshops as well as for industrial production in places as different as Chile, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Sweden, and the United States. A Three essaysA analyze the progression of Hicksa??s art and technique and her many modes of working. Among other topics, they...

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About the Author:

Joan Simon and Whitney Chadwick are independent scholars. Joan Simon is the author of 'Alice Guy Blache: Cinema Pioneer' (Yale University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Gallery of American Art
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300121644
• ISBN 13: 9780300121643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256