{"product_id":"textiles-community-and-controversy-9781350027527","title":"Textiles Community and Controversy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a major textile artwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003ehe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history, \u003ci\u003eTextiles, Community and Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a solid, convincing example of the theoretical possibilities generated by a collaborative, disputed, ambitious art project. * ARLIS\/NA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eNicola Moffat \u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 1 - Navigation, nuance and half\/angel's \u003ci\u003eKnitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJools Gilson\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 2 - The entangled map and Irish Art \u003ci\u003eFionna Barber\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 3 - \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map \u003c\/i\u003eand the media \u003ci\u003eRachel Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 4\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e Busywork: The real thing \u003ci\u003eLucy R. Lippard\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 5 - The edge of the \u003ci\u003eMap\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicola Moffat\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 6\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eKnitting after making: What we do with what we make \u003ci\u003eJessica Hemmings\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 7\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eTextures of performance: Rethinking \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRóisín O’Gorman\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8 - Whereabouts uncertain: Reading subversion in half\/angel's \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e in Cork, Ireland and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania \u003ci\u003eDeborah Barkun\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 9 - On seeing, still \u003ci\u003eBernadette Sweeney\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 10\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e The voices of Cork: Cartography, landscape and memory in \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e Kieran McCarthy  Chapter 11 - Puns and needles: Reactions to \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e in 2005 Sarah Foster  Chapter 12 - Stitched up?: \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map\u003c\/i\u003e in context Joanne Turney  Chapter 13 - Alchemy for beginners: \u003ci\u003eThe Knitting Map \u003c\/i\u003eand other primes Richard Povell  Afterword \u003ci\u003eJools Gilson\u003c\/i\u003e  Endnotes References Index About the authors Contributors","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866591768919,"sku":"9781350027527","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350027527.jpg?v=1722279361","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/textiles-community-and-controversy-9781350027527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}