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Fray : art and textile politics / Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Summary:

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of "craftivism"—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—Fray explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval.

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  • ISBN: 9780226077819 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 326 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: textile politics -- Queer handmaking; The Cockettes' crafty genders; Harmony Hammond goes down -- Threads of protest; Cecilia Vicuña's concepts and quipus; Arpilleras, "tapestries of defamation" -- Remains of the AIDS quilt, Piecing the names, 1985-1992; Crafting conflicts, 1992-present -- Afterword: the currency of cloth.
Subject: Vicuña, Cecilia.
Fiberwork > Political aspects.
Art > Political aspects > Case studies.
Homosexuality and art > United States.
Handicraft > Political aspects > United States.
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Textile crafts > Political aspects > Chile.
Feminism and art.
Art, Modern > 20th century > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design N7433.9 .B79 2017 (Text) 30231552 Book Volume hold Available -


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