Philosophy of Textile

Between Practice and Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvCatherine Dormor,UK) Dormor, Catherine (Westminster School of Arts

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Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than parallel modes. This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the language and materiality of textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making. Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the material behaviours and philosophical language of folding, shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven together.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x 9 mm
Vikt236 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350195837

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List of Plates AcknowledgementsIntroductionTextile as Making: techne between practice and theoryWeaving the Chapters(Inter)minglingChapter One: Folding An Unfolding of MakingMetaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking Textile–SpaceLa Maison BaroqueFolding–Seaming–FrayingChapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface Veils: a space of scintillationFaintly GleamingIllicit EncountersAbsurdityThrough the Looking GlassChapter Three: Seaming Seaming as PassageHand & Machine StitchingSeaming as SuturingSeaming as TraceConjunctions & CrossingsChapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance Attacking the BoundaryCollapsing BoundariesFlowOntological SecretionsA substance between two statesChapter Five: FrayingFrayed and Fraying: a politics of translationFrayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingentTo the Edge: pointing away from the centreWorn ThroughFrayingChapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/ObjectAffective TouchingProximityOpening Out-BecomingMeasuring DistanceFirst Actions of HandsSynoptic-Synesthetic CaressingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex