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Woven Histories

Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Production by Brad Ireland and Christina Wiginton, Editing by Magda Nakassis,

National Gallery of Art, Washington copublished by The University of Chicago Press, 2023, 284 pages, ISBN 978-0-226-82729-2

euro 65,00

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Exhibition dates : Los Angeles County Museum Art 2023, Washington Nat.Gall.Art 2024, Ottawa Nat.Gall.Canada 2024,New York MoMA 2025

Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles.   Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts.   Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues of our time.

'The proletariat is the creator of the future, not the heir to the past'

Art by famed Soviet designer Varvara Stepanova, 1919.

Varvara Stepanova

Una vita costruttivista

Aleksandr Lavrent’ev    Introduzione di Nicoletta Misler

Idea Books Edizioni, Milano 1988, 189 pagine,  telato con svc illustrata, 27,5 x 25,5 cm,  con oltre 350 ill. nel testo di cui 80 a colori, ISBN  9788870170399

euro 45,00

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Questo volume, riccamente illustrato, presenta per la prima volta in modo completo l'opera multiforme di Varvara Stepanova, protagonista delle avanguardie sovietiche, pittrice, grafica, designer, stilista, scenografa, costumista e poetessa futurista. Come Rodcenko, Stepanova fu tra i fondatori del costruttivismo e partecipò alle mostre storiche del movimento. Dal 1924 fino al 1958 si occupò di grafica editoriale. È questo il campo in cui l'artista lavorò in modo più continuativo e ad esso è dedicato un lungo capitolo in cui viene presentata un'impressionante quantità di materiale iconografico inedito.

15/01/23

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