Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a survey of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which the craft has been embraced as a form of creative expression. Some artists evoke a kind of nostalgia, rediscovering skills that have fallen from fashion or promoting the value of ancient handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production. Others push boundaries by using embroidery on photographs, poetic installations, embroidered reproductions of everyday objects, or by using it to tackle political, personal or transgressive themes. Threads is a captivating exploration of their creative journeys, their influences, the technical challenges they face and the message they wish to convey
Threads: Contemporary Embroidery Art
Thames and Hudson Ltd
$455.00
- SKU:
- 9780500295458
- Author:
- Charlotte Vannier
- Publisher:
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-10
- Format:
- Paperback
- illustration info:
- Illustrated throughout
- Pages:
- 368