Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map - Softcover

Jools Gilson; Nicola Moffat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350027529 ISBN 13: 9781350027527

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

Synopsis

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 examines the multiple and often contradictory meanings within contemporary textile artworks, and the process of making them.

Created by more than 2,500 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, The 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.

About this title

About the Author

Jools Gilson is a transdisciplinary artist, scholar and Professor of Creative Practice at University College Cork, Ireland, in addition to an award-winning radio broadcaster. She directed the textile art project The Knitting Map from 2003-5, and has written and presented on the work internationally.

Nicola Moffat is an independent scholar, poet and artist who lives and practises in Cork, Ireland. She has published articles in several journals and edited collections, and her poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is a regular contributor to Ó Bheál, Cork's longest running open mic night and to events organised in support of Fired! Irish Women Poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350027529
• ISBN 13: 9781350027527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Jools Gilson, Nicola Moffat