Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today by Hemmings, Jessica

Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today

Cultural Threads considers contemporary artists and designers who work at the intersection of cultures and use textiles...
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Author: Jessica Hemmings
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Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today by Hemmings, Jessica

Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today

€106,47

Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today

€106,47
Author: Jessica Hemmings
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Jessica Hemmings
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 11/12/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781350171756

About the Author
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.


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