String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
By (Author) Elissa Auther
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
20th January 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
709.7309045
Physical Properties
Paperback
280
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 18mm
Description
String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. In this full-colour illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fibre, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the artcraft divide.
Author Bio
Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
