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

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"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 200...

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Textile crafts Prairie Provinces History 20th century

Part of a Series:

Art in profile Art in profile ; no. 16 Art in profile ISSN: 1700-9995 Art in profile ISSN: 1700-9995 ; no. 16

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ISBN:

9781773854878

Description:

xix, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

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
M©♭tis 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-Fr©·re
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

Control Number:

3311977

Other Authors:

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

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