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A Philosophy of Textile
Between Practice and Theory
A Philosophy of Textile
Between Practice and Theory
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Textile as Making: techne between practice and theory
Weaving the Chapters
(Inter)mingling
Chapter One: Folding
An Unfolding of Making
Metaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking
Textile–Space
La Maison Baroque
Folding–Seaming–Fraying
Chapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface
Veils: a space of scintillation
Faintly Gleaming
Illicit Encounters
Absurdity
Through the Looking Glass
Chapter Three: Seaming
Seaming as Passage
Hand & Machine Stitching
Seaming as Suturing
Seaming as Trace
Conjunctions & Crossings
Chapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance
Attacking the Boundary
Collapsing Boundaries
Flow
Ontological Secretions
A substance between two states
Chapter Five: Fraying
Frayed and Fraying: a politics of translation
Frayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingent
To the Edge: pointing away from the centre
Worn Through
Fraying
Chapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/Object
Affective Touching
Proximity
Opening Out-Becoming
Measuring Distance
First Actions of Hands
Synoptic-Synesthetic Caressing
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Jun 30 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9781350195837 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 26 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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