TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auther,Elissa
TI  - String, felt, thread: the hierarchy of art and craft in American art 
SN  - 9780816656080 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - N7433.9 .A98 2010
U1  - 709.73/09045 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Fiberwork
KW  - United States
KW  - Art
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Handicraft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1: Fiber art and the struggle for legitimacy: The category of fiber art -- Cultural definitions of textiles and the bauhaus weavers -- Fiber and women's work -- Fiber art, the craft revival of the 1960s and 1970s, and popular craft -- The critical reception of fiber art in the 1960s and 1970s -- Mildred Constantine and the battle for fiber art -- 2: Process art, postminimalism, and materiality: Felt in the work of Robert Morris -- The critical reception of the felts -- String, rope, and cord in the work of Eva Hesse -- The reception of Hesse's work in fiber -- Fiber, tactility, and the boundary between art and non-art -- 3: The feminist politicization of the art/craft divide: Promises and problems of the feminist critique of the hierarchy of art and craft -- Faith Ringgold: "A painter who works in the quilt medium" -- Miriam Schapiro: "The quiet revolution" -- Ringgold, Schapiro, and the art world's appropriation of quilting -- Harmony Hammond: the mythic space of the "feminine stitch" -- Judy Chicago: the vitality of embroidery -- Conclusion: fiber, craft, and contemporary art
ER  -