Prairie interlace : weaving, modernisms, and the expanded frame, 1960-2000 Cover Image

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Prairie interlace : weaving, modernisms, and the expanded frame, 1960-2000 / edited by Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger.

Hardy, Michele A. (Michele Arlene), 1960- (editor.). Long, Timothy, 1961- (editor.). Krueger, Julia, 1978- (editor.).

Summary:

"Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art. Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to the 2000s. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts on the Canadian Prairies provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been nearly undocumented. Featuring over sixty beautiful full-colour images of textile works, many of which have never before been photographed for print, Prairie Interlace provides an opportunity to discover a fascinating movement which has not received the attention it deserves and invites further investigation of this rich period in Canadian art history. Developing from the travelling exhibition of the same name, Prairie Interlace is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781773854861
ISBN: 9781773854878
ISBN: 1773854860
ISBN: 1773854879
Physical Description: xix, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm
Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to Prairie Interlace: Recovering “Lost Modernisms” / Julia Krueger, Michele Hardy, Timothy Long -- Stand Back--Nothing to See--Move Along / Jennifer E. Salahub -- Marginalized Moderns: Co-operatives and Indigenous Textile Arts in Saskatchewan, 1960-1972 / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Métis Stories and Women’s Artistic Labour in Margaret Pelletier Harrison’s Margaret’s Rug / Cheryl Troupe -- The Gift of Time, The Gift of Freedom: Weaving and Fibre Art at the Banff Centre / Mary-Beth Laviolette -- Living and Liveable Spaces: Prairie Textiles and Architecture / Susan Surette -- Curating Prairie Interlace: Encounters, Longings, and Challenges / Julia Krueger and Michele Hardy -- Weaving at the Horizon: Encounters with Fibre Art on the Canadian Prairie / Mackenzie Kelly-Frère -- Contextual Bodies: From the Cradle to the Barricade / Mireille Perron -- Six Ways of Looking at Prairie Interlace / Alison Calder -- Weaving in an Expanded Frame / Timothy Long.