The Textile Reader - Softcover

Bloomsbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847886345 ISBN 13: 9781847886347

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, The Textile Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction, as well as critical writings - and organised in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. The Textile Reader is an invaluable resource for students of textile design, textile art, applied arts and crafts and material culture. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Alice Walker and Catherine de Zegher.

About this title

About the Author

Jessica Hemmings is Head of Context at Edinburgh College of Art. She also writes articles and exhibition reviews for publications including Crafts, Selvedge and the Surface Design Journal and is author of Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (2008) and editor of In the Loop: Knitting Now (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847886345
• ISBN 13: 9781847886347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Jessica Hemmings