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STRING, FELT, THREAD: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art - All Fiber Arts Bookshop | |
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STRING, FELT, THREAD: | |
| by Elissa Auther | |
| A beautifully illustrated history of the use of fiber in the American art world in the postwar era | |
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| University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | January 2010 ISBN 978-0-8166-5609-7 | paperback | $29.95 ISBN 978-0-8166-5608-0 | hardcover | $90.00 | |
| 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. | |
| "The study of modern craft has only a few real stars, and none shine more brightly than Elissa Auther. Her innovative book is a challenge to more conventional histories of textiles and postminimal art alike, and an important contribution to feminist art history. Perhaps most important, String, Felt, Thread serves as the prehistory of our own cross-disciplinary movement. This is a book to be welcomed by historians, artists, and craftspeople alike."-Glenn Adamson, Victoria and Albert Museum | |
| "This book is the first, and long overdue, in-depth history of the evolving use of fiber media in the 1960s and 1970s, elaborating and challenging hierarchical art-craft distinctions. It is absolutely critical for modern art history, and essential reading for artists working with fiber as a material in contemporary art. Bravo to Elissa Auther!"-Anne Wilson, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
| For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/auther_string.html | |
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