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The Handbook of Textile Culture
Contributor(s): Jefferies, Janis (Editor), Wood Conroy, Diana (Editor), Clark, Hazel (Editor)
ISBN: 0857857754     ISBN-13: 9780857857750
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $220.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2015
* Not available - Not in print at this time *
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries - Fashion & Textile Industry
Dewey: 746
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.5" W x 9.7" (2.55 lbs) 512 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies.

The handbook offers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles' relationships to history, memory, place, and social and technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and contemporary textile art practice.

This illustrated volume will be essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion, feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history.

Cover image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014. Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC. Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.

Contributor Bio(s): Wood Conroy, Diana: - Diana Wood Conroy is Professor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.Jefferies, Janis: - Janis Jefferies is Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London.Clark, Hazel: - Hazel Clark is Chair of the Dept. of Art and Design Studies at Parsons the New School for Design, New York. Clark is co-editor of Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion and The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity and Globalization.