Mary Schoeser

Textiles

The Art of Mankind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprises more than 1,000 images that highlight the beauty, subtlety, simplicity or complexity of textiles created around the world. This title illuminates the ways in which structure or surface decoration or embellishment enhance this most tactile of arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 235mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 3286g
• ISBN-13: 9780500516454
• ISBN-10: 0500516456
• Artikelnr.: 35301051

Autorenporträt

As an archivist, curator and historian, Mary Schoeser MA FRSA has had access to numerous public and private collections across the UK, Europe and America. Among her many publications are Textiles: The art of mankind (Thames & Hudson: 2012 and 2013), available in Chinese, English, French and German. Honorary President of the Textile Society (UK), she is also affiliated with the Victoria and Albert Museum as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, and is Patron of the Bernat Klein Foundation and the School of Textiles, Coggeshall.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Impact
II. Ingredients
III. Structure: Non-tensioned Techniques; Looping & Twisting; Weaving
IV. Surface: Insertions; Embroidery; Painting & Printing
V. Added Dimensions: Pleating & Folding; Cutting & Stitching; Elaborations
VI. Imagery: Content; Identity; Narrative
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Further Reading