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Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York

Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York
Library Shelf Location 25a.WELL
Publication Date 2019
Description

An unprecedented study that reveals tapestry's role as a modernist medium and a model for the movement's discourse on both sides of the Atlantic in the decades following World War II With a revelatory analysis of how the postwar French tapestry revival provided a medium for modern art and a model for its discourse and marketing on both sides of the Atlantic, Weaving Modernism presents a fascinating reexamination of modernism's relationship to decoration, reproducibility, and politics. Tapestry offered artists a historically grounded medium for distributing and marketing their work, helped expand the visibility and significance of abstraction at midcentury, and facilitated modernism's entry into the dominant paradigm of the postwar period. K. L. H. Wells situates tapestry as part of a broader "marketplace modernism" in which artists participated, conjuring a lived experience of visual culture in corporate lobbies, churches, and even airplanes, as well as in galleries and private homes. This extensively researched study features previously unpublished illustrations and little-known works by such major artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Stella

ISBN 9780300232592
Quantity 1
Pages 280 Pages, 257mm x 188mm x 25mm
Format Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Related Artists Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella
Category Textiles
Keywords Tapestry, Modernism, textiles
Language English

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