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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This major looker of an exhibition catalog loosens up the warp and weft of conventional views of modern art—all those tight-knotted hierarchical categories (high versus low, art versus craft) on which our institutions and markets still rest—and demonstrates the universe of formal and conceptual brilliance that has always traveled on a parallel track. The sheer variety of work produced by more than 50 artists chosen by the book’s editor, Lynne Cooke, will knock your socks off. (Just wait till you see what’s happening in the field of basketry alone.) So will the visual imaginations of individual geniuses we already know like Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Gego, Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, and the others we’re introduced to here." * New York Times, on "Best Art Books of 2023" *
"In centering weaving—thread, fiber, and cloth—
Woven Histories differently tracks adaptations from within the frame of its traditions." * Brooklyn Rail *
"Placing textiles — and centrally weaving — at the heart of modern abstract art, Cooke selected from the work of around fifty textile artists. She also invited five art critics to respond to the thorny issues raised when weaving and abstract art are linked. Most powerfully, six contemporary fiber artists were asked to draw on their creative perspectives to comment on the works of other fiber artists in the show. . . . Cooke’s majestic compendium of woven artists contains over one hundred finely reproduced illustrations." * Arts Fuse *
Table of ContentsForeword
Modernist Histories: Braided, Interlaced, and Aligned —
Lynne Cooke Plates
Artists’ Responses
Lisa Oppenheim
Harmony Hammond
Jeffrey Gibson
Ann Hamilton
Ellen Lesperance
Ulrike Müller
Carole Frances Lung Unavoidable Nature —
Darby English Textile Thinking —
Briony Fer Not Your Grandmother’s Labor —
Bibiana K. Obler Dimensions of Basketry —
Elissa Auther Textility and Technology —
Michelle Kuo Notes
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Index
