Author : Marion Boulton Stroud
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262194891
Based on work produced over the past quarter-century at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, this stunning retrospective highlights the work of Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Chris Burden, Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Venturi, and other outstanding artists. (Fine Arts)
Author : Patricia C. Phillips
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9783791357096
"Cloth making -- among the oldest forms of human cultural production -- provides inspiration for Ann Hamilton's multi-venue project, 'habitus', located at three sites: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Municipal Pier 9, and on social media. 'habitus' weaves text, textile, and image together as mediums for an imaginative and tactile exchange between artist and audience. The museum's galleries display Hamilton's selection of historical objects -- including literacy commonlace books, textile sample books, dolls, and needwork portfolios -- borrowed from Philadelphia museums and public collections. Printed passages from published writings referencing the social and material life of textiles, and collected through an open call to the public at http://cloth-a-commonplace.tumblr.com, will be available free to museum visitors. In the vast space of Municipal Pier 9 on the Delaware River, visitors propel a field of gigantic cylindrical curtains to billow to atmospheric proportion. As cloth swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep; as a folded blanket can tell a story of trade; as a flag carries the symbol of a nation, Hamilton's multi-venue exhibition 'habitus' invites us to touch and be touched by the fabric of human experience"--Publisher's statement.
Author : Karen Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : African American painters
ISBN : 9781736014615
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is a Philadelphia-based visual artist whose works--drawings, paintings, sculpture, video and sound--focus primarily on Black, queer domestic intimacy. The artist was invited to work with the FWM Studio in the museum's renowned screenprinting facilities to conceptualize and produce an original design. Chase employed this newly-created yardage as canvases on which to make a new suite of paintings, as well as soft sculpture and clothing. Big Wash is the artist's first solo museum exhibition and will feature new work created during their 2019-2020 screenprinting residency at FWM. For Big Wash, Chase turns their attention to the laundromat as a site that is at once private and public. With newly created paintings, drawings, and video, they continue their signature ability to move seamlessly between history and fantasy, as well as interior and exterior, with vivid depictions of eroticism, domesticity, queerness, nostalgia, and tenderness. Chase's vibrant textile design punctuates the exhibition and acts as a stand-in for Black queer bodies navigating both the rawness of the urban landscape and intimacy of domestic settings.
Author : John Currin
Publisher : DISTRIBUTED ART PUB
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Artists' writings
ISBN : 9780979764257
"John Currin worked on the painting that became 'The Dogwood Thieves' for six years. Starting with a photograph from a magazine advertisement, he altered the painting several dozen times until he was satisified with the composition. This publication is based on a lecture given by John Currin in August 2010 at the Acadia Summer Arts Program"--P. [3].
Author : Ursula Von Rydingsvärd
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Sculpture, Abstract
ISBN : 9783777429991
"Celebrated as one of the most influential sculptors working today, Ursula von Rydingsvard is best known for her monumental works and signature use of cedar wood. Her sculptures' abstract shapes reference the mark of the human hand--evidence of the artist's meticulous process of cutting, shaping, and assembling her works from thousands of cedar blocks--while simultaneously evoking the grandeur and power of nature. Guest curated by Mark Rosenthal, Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling focuses on von Rydingsvard's artistic development since 2000 and her continued commitment to experimentation throughout her career. Recent works and a selection of early sculptures will provide insight into the artist's longstanding material and thematic interests. Featuring approximately 20 works--over half of which are large-scale--the exhibition includes many sculptures never before exhibited in the United States. The Contour of Feeling will also mark the debut of a new massive sculpture created in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum specifically for the exhibition. Constructed from leather--a first for the artist--the piece's scale is in keeping with recent work, while the new material represents an expansion for von Rydingsvard's practice. It will mark the second collaboration between the artist and FWM, the first being in 1989 when she created a new work from felt. By spotlighting her more recent work and contrasting it with earlier pieces, Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling highlights the artist's evolution and presents a window into a unique synthesis of emotional fragility and imposing scale in her work that marks von Rydingsvard as an extraordinary artist of our time"--Publisher's description.
Author : Valerie Cassel Oliver
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780998701868
In the spring of 1865, a seemingly unremarkable dishcloth played a crucial role in ending the Civil War as the South's flag of surrender at Appomattox. A Confederate horseman carried a humble white linen towel into the lines of General George Custer, near the courthouse at Appomattox. The horseman was sent on behalf of General Robert E. Lee, who was requesting a suspension of hostilities while General Ulysses S. Grant proposed terms of surrender. Focusing on this Confederate Flag of Truce, Clark explores the legacy of symbols and challenges the power of propaganda, erasures, and omissions. By making the Truce Flag - a cloth that brokered peace and represented the promise of reconciliation - into a monumental alternative to the infamous Confederate Battle Flag and its pervasive divisiveness, Clark instigates a role reversal and aims to correct a historical imbalance. Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, on view from March to August 2019. The works of art presented here are a timely catalyst for dialogue about the scars of the Confederacy and America's ability to acknowledge and reckon with racial injustice.
Author : Fabric Workshop and Museum
Publisher : Fabric Workshop and Museum
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780998701813
In honor of the Fabric Workshop and Museum's 40th anniversary, Process and Practice tells a story of contemporary art at FWM that highlights process along with product. It documents FWM's history of collaboration with established and emerging artists-in-residence since the 2002 publication of New Materials as New Media. Some of the over 30 artists featured include Mark Bradford, Ann Hamilton, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Richard Tuttle, Sarah Sze, Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Joan Jonas and Trisha Brown, among many others. Also featured are essays by Nancy Princenthal, Patterson Sims and Susan Lubowsky Talbott, FWM's current director.
Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870701535
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Author : Guoqiang Cai
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Installations (Art)
ISBN : 9780972455657
Text by Carlos Basualdo, David Elliott, Marion Boulton Stroud, Wang Mingxian.
Author : Mateo Kries
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The American architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) is regarded as one of the great master builders of the twentieth century. With complex spatial compositions, an elemental formal vocabulary and a choreographic mastery of light, Kahn created buildings of archaic beauty. As the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, the book �Louis Kahn - The Power of Architecture� presents all of his important projects. It includes essays by prominent Kahn experts and an expansive illustrated biography with many new facts and insights about Kahn's life and work. In a number of interviews, leading architects such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto underline Kahn's significance in today's architectural discourse. An extensive catalogue of works features original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. The compendium is further augmented by a portfolio of Kahn's travel drawings as well as photographs by Thomas Florschuetz, which offer completely new views of the Salk Institute and the Indian Institute of Management.
