Thread of Life
Tallahassee, Florida: Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 2012. Softcover. Glossy color wraps with white lettering. All glossy pages. 63 pp. with mostly color illus. throughout. VG+. Item #152222
ISBN: 9781889282251
Catalogue from the exhibition of February to March 2012. Works by 24 different artists. Beautiful, vibrant color images; commentary by each artist. Thread of Life is characterized by mixed media, new materials, digital images from jacquard looms, and inventive applications of fabric. In the latter half of the 20th century a powerful movement revolved around the pioneer artists of the sixties and seventies who re-claimed media that had been historically sidelined and these artists brought everything that textile arts signified into the political consciousness of the contemporary art world. In Thread of Life there are works that address civil rights and imprisonment, the sweatshop, natural disasters and man-made ones, and the human narrative from birth to poetic elegy. Artists who are weavers, painters, sculptors and needleworkers have created exciting narratives and statements, ecological landscapes and installations.
Price: $29.97