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Cultural threads : transnational textiles today / edited by Jessica Hemmings.

Contributor(s): Hemmings, Jessica [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472524997 (hardback); 1472524993 (hardback); 9781472530936 (paperback); 1472530934 (paperback).Subject(s): Fiberwork -- Social aspects | Textile crafts -- Social aspects | Postcolonialism and the arts | Art and globalizationDDC classification: 746.09051
Contents:
Artists' Statements -- Dutch Wax Resist Textiles -- An Imagined Africa -- Weaving, Tradition and Tourism in Ghana -- Can Pakeha Make Customary Maori Art? -- Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora -- From Brixton to Mostar -- A Post-Slavery Reading of Cotton -- Contemporary Textile Imagery in Southern Africa -- Social Sutra: A Platform for Ethical Textiles in Partnerships Between Australia and India.
Summary: Cultural Threads considers contemporary examples of textile artists who work at the intersection of multiple cultural influences and use crafts as their vehicle. The roots of postcolonial theory lie in literature and have, in the past, been communicated through dense academic jargon. This book aims to break with the impenetrable rhetoric and instead show the rich visual diversity of craft and art that engages with multiple cultural influences. Postcolonial ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which in reality result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, are pertinent to society today more than ever. So too are the multiple, often overlooked, histories behind the objects that make up our material world. Many of these objects exist in an in-between world of their own, not wholly embraced by the establishments of art, nor functional objects in the conventional sense of craft. Cultural Threads is an exploration of modern textile art and its relationship with postcolonial culture; however, the postcolonial thinking examined here shares with craft an interest in the lived, rather than the purely theoretical, and as such is a very human account of these interactions between craft and culture-- Provided by publisher.
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Cultural Threads considers contemporary artists and designers who work at the intersection of cultures and use textiles as their vehicle. Ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which can result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere, are more pertinent to society today than ever. So too are the layers of history - often overlooked - behind the objects that make up our material world. The roots of postcolonial theory lie in literature and have, in the past, been communicated through dense academic jargon. Cultural Threads breaks with what can read as impenetrable rhetoric to show the rich visual diversity of craft and art that engages with multiple cultural influences. Many of these objects exist in an in-between world of their own, not wholly embraced by the establishments of art, nor functional objects in the conventional sense of craft. Cultural Threads is an exploration of contemporary textiles and their relationship with postcolonial culture. However, the postcolonial thinking examined here shares with craft an interest in the lived, rather than the purely theoretical, giving a very human account of the interactions in between craft and culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Artists' Statements -- Dutch Wax Resist Textiles -- An Imagined Africa -- Weaving, Tradition and Tourism in Ghana -- Can Pakeha Make Customary Maori Art? -- Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora -- From Brixton to Mostar -- A Post-Slavery Reading of Cotton -- Contemporary Textile Imagery in Southern Africa -- Social Sutra: A Platform for Ethical Textiles in Partnerships Between Australia and India.

Cultural Threads considers contemporary examples of textile artists who work at the intersection of multiple cultural influences and use crafts as their vehicle. The roots of postcolonial theory lie in literature and have, in the past, been communicated through dense academic jargon. This book aims to break with the impenetrable rhetoric and instead show the rich visual diversity of craft and art that engages with multiple cultural influences. Postcolonial ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which in reality result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, are pertinent to society today more than ever. So too are the multiple, often overlooked, histories behind the objects that make up our material world. Many of these objects exist in an in-between world of their own, not wholly embraced by the establishments of art, nor functional objects in the conventional sense of craft. Cultural Threads is an exploration of modern textile art and its relationship with postcolonial culture; however, the postcolonial thinking examined here shares with craft an interest in the lived, rather than the purely theoretical, and as such is a very human account of these interactions between craft and culture-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Artists' Statements
  • Julie Ryder: Reflections on Charles Darwin's South Pacific (Australia)
  • Jorge Lizarazo and Hechizoo: Columbian Voyages and Explorations (Columbia)
  • Cecilia Vicuña: QUIPUing from Santiago, Chile to Sydney, Australia (Chile)
  • Elaine Reichek: Revisiting a Postcolonial Kinderhood in America (USA)
  • Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody: African Design Exported (South Africa)
  • Chapter 2 Dutch Wax Resist Textiles
  • Chapter 3 An Imagined Africa: Stories told by Contemporary Textiles
  • Chapter 4 Weaving, Tradition and Tourism in Ghana: "The End of Skill"
  • Chapter 5 Can Pakeha Make Customary Maori Art? A Conversation in New Zealand with Weaver Margaret White
  • Chapter 6 Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora
  • Chapter 7 From Brixton to Mostar: Social Practice Through Textiles
  • Chapter 8 A Post-Slavery Reading of Cotton
  • Chapter 9 Contemporary Textile Imagery in Southern Africa: a Question of Ownership
  • Chapter 10 Social Sutra: A Platform for Ethical Textiles in Partnerships Between Australia and India
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jessica Hemmings is Professor of Crafts and Vice-Prefekt of Research, HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jessica is editor of The Textile Reader (Berg, 2012), In the Loop: Knitting Now (2010) and author of Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors (Bloomsbury, 2012). She is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to publications including Crafts , Selvedge , and the Surface Design Journal .