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Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft

Shadows of Affect

John Corso-Esquivel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:10th Jul '19

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This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art—long disparaged in the wake of the high–low dichotomy of late Modernism—is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.

"An art critic and a respected scholar, Esquivel (Oakland Univ.) challenges the patriarchal traditions of male artists by drawing the reader's gaze to the translucent installations and crafted fiber objects of eight female artists. ... Recommended."

--Choice

"This publication is highly recommended for scholars of craft, art history, and philosophy. For studio students, it is best suited to graduate studies, unless theory is emphasized in the curriculum."

--ARLIS/NA


"An art critic and a respected scholar, Esquivel (Oakland Univ.) challenges the patriarchal traditions of male artists by drawing the reader's gaze to the translucent installations and crafted fiber objects of eight female artists. ... Recommended."

--Choice

"This publication is highly recommended for scholars of craft, art history, and philosophy. For studio students, it is best suited to graduate studies, unless theory is emphasized in the curriculum."

--ARLIS/NA

"A timely contemporary contribution which elicits some of the things we know are bound into our textile making."

--Craft Research

ISBN: 9780815374282

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 589g

170 pages