Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Author: Arthur C. Danto

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780300116854

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This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years. Focusing on 100 Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, it includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.


Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

Author: Joan Simon

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300121643

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Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects & public commissions whose structures are built of colour & fibre. This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicks's work. It documents the divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use, & surprising range, of materials.


Sheila Hicks: Lifelines

Sheila Hicks: Lifelines

Author: Centre Georges Pompidou

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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An admirer of pre-Columbian textiles, the artist uses large sculptures as well as miniature weaves to create tapestries that bring their color to life.


On Weaving

On Weaving

Author: Anni Albers

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780486431925

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This survey of textile fundamentals and methods, written by the foremost textile artist of the 20th century, covers hand weaving and the loom, fundamental construction and draft notation, modified and composite weaves, early techniques of thread interlacing, interrelation of fiber and construction, tactile sensibility, and design. 9 color illustrations. 112 black-and-white plates.


Finnish Modern Design

Finnish Modern Design

Author: Marianne Aav

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13: 9780300082807

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This beautiful book examines the design achievements of Finland over the past seven decades, focusing on the central and decisive role played by Modernism. It discusses the work of such renowned architects and designers as Alvar Aalto and Kaj Franck, as well as of manufacturers, including Arabia and Marimekko.


Bruno Mathsson

Bruno Mathsson

Author: Dag Widman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0300121911

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A complete survey of the life and work of master designer Bruno Mathsson, whose archetypal Modernist chair is admired worldwide The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark and have been in continuous production for more than fifty years. In his less familiar architectural work, Mathsson (1907-1988) applied the same principles of innovative comfortable living. Throughout his work the connections between design and ergonomics, aesthetics and innovative materials, energy saving and environmental concerns resonate for designers today. This book surveys Mathsson's output as an architect and designer as well as his relationships with American architects and designers including Frank Lloyd-Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Knoll. Extensive illustrations include unpublished photographs of his Mathsson's work in situ.


Irma Boom. Book Manifest

Irma Boom. Book Manifest

Author: Irma Boom

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783753300917

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World renowned Dutch designer Irma Boom is known for her bold experimental approach to her projects, often challenging the convention of traditional books in both physical design and printed content.0In the book 'Book Manifest' Irma Boom presents her vision on the essence, meaning and relevance of the book. The basis for this book is formed by the in-depth research that Irma Boom carried out into the development of the book in the library of the Vatican. The knowledge she gained about this, and the inspiration it gave her, is shared with a selection of more than 350 books she designed, in which she extensively discusses the context and relationship with the old book. With this 1000-page, richly illustrated book, Irma Boom aims to inspire and encourage the new generation of designers to experiment, in order to ensure the book's position for the future.0Boom's books in the permanent collection of MoMA in New York, and Special Collectons of the University of Amsterdam (NL) collect her complete oeuvre: the Irma Boom Archive. 00Exhibition: Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (01.02.-25.09.2022).


Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

Author: Karin Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780692689400

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Drawing on global weaving traditions, the history of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, Sheila Hicks has redefined how fiber is used to create art, influencing a generation of artists. Sheila Hicks: Material Voices explores sixty years of her prolific career through four diverse perspectives. Karin Campbell considers how Hicks's oeuvre has taken shape over time and highlights the essential links between the artist's work and lived experience. Ted Kooser reflects on the aesthetic and poetic power Hicks's work, while Jason Farago delves into Hicks's incomparable eye for color. Finally, a conversation between the artist and Monique Lévi-Strauss looks back to formative experiences from early in Hicks's life and career.


Counterpractice

Counterpractice

Author: Rakhee Balaram

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1526125188

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Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81). It considers women’s art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s – Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva – forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May ’68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.