This exciting journal brings together research in textiles in an innovative and distinctive academic forum, and will be of interest to all those who share a multifaceted view of textiles within an expanded field. Representing a dynamic and wide-ranging set of critical practices, it provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice -- all situated within the broader contexts of material and visual culture.
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Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'- Times Higher Education'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dare to mo
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 172 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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978-1-85973-774-3 (9781859737743)
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Pennina Barnett, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Doran Ross, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles.
Material Loss, Transitional Space and the Uncanny in Alison Marchant's 'Kingsland Road, London-East' Judith Rugg Weaving the Murray: Mapping Connection and Loss Kay Lawrence Collecting the Contemporary: "Love Will Decide What is Kept and Science Will Decide How it is Kept" Sue Prichard Contemporary Production and Transmission of Resist-dyed and Block-printed Textiles in Kachchh District, Gujarat Eiluned Edwards Exhibition Reviews 'The Fabric of Moroccan Life' Reviewed by Christine Tate 'Engineer Part Three: Laura Ford 'Wreckers" 'Wreckers' Disguise' Reviewed by Caryn Simonson Book Reviews 'Bogolan: Shaping Culture Through Cloth in Contemporary Mali' and 'Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy in Madagascar' Reviewed by John Picton 'Disentangling Textiles' Reviewed by Clare Taylor 'GEGO The Complete Works 1955-1990' Reviewed by Clio Padovani
