Threads
Contemporary Embroidery Art
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Autor: Vannier Charlotte
- EAN: 9780500295458
- Oprawa: Miękka
- Wydawca: Thames and Hudson
- Format: 22.0x28.0cm
- Język: angielski
- Liczba stron: 368
- Rok wydania: 2019
- Wysyłamy w ciągu: niedostępny
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Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a survey of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which the craft has been embraced as a form of creative expression. Some artists evoke a kind of nostalgia, rediscovering skills that have fallen from fashion or promoting the value of ancient handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production. Others push boundaries by using embroidery on photographs, poetic installations, embroidered reproductions of everyday objects, or by using it to tackle political, personal or transgressive themes. Threads is a captivating exploration of their creative journeys, their influences, the technical challenges they face and the message they wish to convey
