Textiles, community and controversy : The knitting map

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019

Subject:

half/angel (Firm). - Knitting map
Knitting - History - 21st century
Fiberwork - History - 21st century
Art and society - History - 21st century

Contributor:

Gilson, Jools, editor
Moffat, Nicola, editor

ISBN:

9781350027527, 1350027529, 9781350027510, and 1350027510

Description:

xvi, 224 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Thomas McCarthy -- Mapping this book: here be monsters / Nicola Moffat. Navigation, nuance and half/angel's "Knitting map": a series of navigational directions / Jools Gilson -- The entangled map and Irish art / Fionna Barber -- "The knitting map" and the media / Rachel Andrews -- Busywork: the real thing / Lucy R. Lippard -- The edge of the "Map" / Nicola Moffat -- Knitting after making: what we do with what we make / Jessica Hemmings -- Textures of performance: rethinking "The knitting map" / Róisín O'Gorman -- Whereabouts uncertain: reading subversion in half/angel's "The knitting map" in Cork, Ireland and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania / Deborah Barkun -- On seeing, still / Bernadette Sweeney -- The voices of Cork: cartography, landscape and memory in "The knitting map" / Kieran McCarthy -- Puns and needles: reactions to "The knitting map" in 2005 / Sarah Foster -- Stitched up? "The knitting map" in context / Joanne Turney -- Alchemy for beginners: "The knitting map" and other primes / Richard Povall -- Jools Gilson

Summary:

The Knitting Map - a giant piece of knitting, constructed over 365 days by more than 2,500 women from 22 different countries, primarily from working-class backgrounds - began as a project about the process of making, but quickly became the subject of national controversy in Ireland after its unveiling. This book takes this tennis-court sized piece of art and uses it as a central case study to examine the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today, which opens up new ways of thinking about their role in establishing - or dividing - community, in addition to their contribution to feminist artist practice. Reading this case study, one that is central to Irish art history, and putting it into the context of feminist artists such as Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold and the Guerilla Girls, this collection of critical essays explores key issues in wider textile practice such as gender, class, nation, technology, performance and community. Also exploring other textile art practices, such as knitting in public, or knitting with multiple hands, the book brings together some of the best-known contemporary thinkers in the field of textile art and feminism, such as art critic Lucy Lippard and textile scholars Jessica Hemmings and Joanne Turney. A timely contribution to debates about contemporary textile art, it will be of interest to students of fine art and textiles, in addition to textile art researchers and artists

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

N6498.F54 T49 2019

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