Description
Book SynopsisTaking a major textile artwork,
The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in contemporary textile art practices, as both process and object. Created by more than 2,000 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, T
he Knitting Map became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history,
Textiles, Community and Controversy locates the work within a context of feminist arts practice, including the work of Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold and the Guerilla Girls.Bringing together leading art critics and textile scholars, including Lucy Lippard, Jessica Hemmings and Joanne Turney, the collection explores key issues in textile practice from gender, class and nation to technology and performan
Trade ReviewThis is a solid, convincing example of the theoretical possibilities generated by a collaborative, disputed, ambitious art project. * ARLIS/NA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Nicola Moffat Chapter 1 - Navigation, nuance and half/angel's
Knitting Map Jools Gilson Chapter 2 - The entangled map and Irish Art
Fionna Barber Chapter 3 -
The Knitting Map and the media
Rachel Andrews Chapter 4
- Busywork: The real thing
Lucy R. Lippard Chapter 5 - The edge of the
Map Nicola Moffat Chapter 6
- Knitting after making: What we do with what we make
Jessica Hemmings Chapter 7
- Textures of performance: Rethinking
The Knitting Map Róisín O’Gorman Chapter 8 - Whereabouts uncertain: Reading subversion in half/angel's
The Knitting Map in Cork, Ireland and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Deborah Barkun Chapter 9 - On seeing, still
Bernadette Sweeney Chapter 10
- The voices of Cork: Cartography, landscape and memory in
The Knitting Map Kieran McCarthy Chapter 11 - Puns and needles: Reactions to
The Knitting Map in 2005 Sarah Foster Chapter 12 - Stitched up?:
The Knitting Map in context Joanne Turney Chapter 13 - Alchemy for beginners:
The Knitting Map and other primes Richard Povell Afterword
Jools Gilson Endnotes References Index About the authors Contributors
