Cloth as Metaphor
Author | : Kojo Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Adinkra cloth |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kojo Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Adinkra cloth |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. F. Kojo Arthur |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1532028946 |
Adinkra symbols visually integrate striking aesthetic power, evocative language, mathematical structures and philosophical concepts. The book views the Adinkra cloth symbols as a writing system. It develops themes from the texts encoded in the proverbs, stories, and maxims associated with the symbols. The themes covered include Akan cosmology, social and political organization, social and ethical values, economics, and Akan knowledge systems. Perhaps the most modern and certainly one of the most comprehensive works on Adinkra (Oluwatoyin Adepoju).
Author | : G. F. Kojo Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781532028939 |
Adinkra symbols visually integrate striking aesthetic power, evocative language and mathematical structures and philosophical concepts. The book views the adinkra cloth symbols as a writing system. It develops themes from the texts encoded in the proverbs, stories and maxims associated with the symbols. The themes covered include Akan cosmology, social and political organization, social and ethical values, economics and Akan knowledge systems. "Perhaps the most modern and certainly one of the most comprehensive works on Adinkra" Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Author | : Jean Borgatti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Bini (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. F. Kojo Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Adinkra cloth |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Borgatti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Bini (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Novesky |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1613129165 |
Award-winning creators, Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault, present a picture book biography of a beloved artist in Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise’s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois’s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. “With evocative, gorgeous illustrations and an inspirational story of an artist not often covered in children’s literature, this arresting volume is an excellent addition to nonfiction picture book collections, particularly those lacking titles about women artists.” —Booklist, starred review
Author | : Jennifer Harris |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2020-09-16 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1118768906 |
A lively and innovative collection of new and recent writings on the cultural contexts of textiles The study of textile culture is a dynamic field of scholarship which spans disciplines and crosses traditional academic boundaries. A Companion to Textile Culture is an expertly curated compendium of new scholarship on both the historical and contemporary cultural dimensions of textiles, bringing together the work of an interdisciplinary team of recognized experts in the field. The Companion provides an expansive examination of textiles within the broader area of visual and material culture, and addresses key issues central to the contemporary study of the subject. A wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the subject are explored—technological, anthropological, philosophical, and psychoanalytical, amongst others—and developments that have influenced academic writing about textiles over the past decade are discussed in detail. Uniquely, the text embraces archaeological textiles from the first millennium AD as well as contemporary art and performance work that is still ongoing. This authoritative volume: Offers a balanced presentation of writings from academics, artists, and curators Presents writings from disciplines including histories of art and design, world history, anthropology, archaeology, and literary studies Covers an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range Provides diverse global, transnational, and narrative perspectives Included numerous images throughout the text to illustrate key concepts A Companion to Textile Culture is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, instructors, and researchers of textile history, contemporary textiles, art and design, visual and material culture, textile crafts, and museology.
Author | : Gloria A. Hickey |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1772823627 |
This multidisciplinary collection of eighteen essays was presented at the conference of the same name. It explores the complex and significant role of contemporary craft in society. The authors show how linguistic and feminist studies are tools for understanding craft. Historical analysis highlights how education, architecture, and industrial design have influenced craft products and our perceptions of them. Social and cultural anthropology show how craft expresses backgrounds of its makers. And ethnology and museum studies reveal the assumptions used in collecting, identifying and exhibiting craft.
Author | : Diana Mary Eva Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1443879428 |
This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are examined using affect theory from Silvan Tomkins and Brian Massumi and work on synaesthesia by Richard Cytowic, Lawrence Marks, and V.S. Ramachandran, among others. Synaesthetic writing, including synaesthetic metaphors, has been explored in poetry since the 1920s and, more recently, in fiction, but these studies have been general in nature. By narrowing the field of investigation to those novels that specifically employ three types of hand-crafted textiles (quilt-making, knitting and embroidery), the book isolates how these textiles are used in fiction. The combination of synaesthesia, memory, metaphor and, particularly, synaesthetic metaphor in fiction with textiles in the text of the case studies selected, shows how these are used to create affect in readers, enhancing their engagement in the story. The work is framed within the context of the history of textile production and the use of textiles in fiction internationally, but concentrates on Australian authors who have used textiles in their writing. The decision to focus on Australian authors was taken in light of the quality and depth of the writing of textile fiction produced in Australia between 1980 and 2005 in the three categories of hand-crafted textiles – quilt-making, knitting and embroidery. The texts chosen for intensive study are: Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (1999, quilting); Marele Day’s Lambs of God (1997, knitting) and Anne Bartlett’s Knitting (2005, knitting); Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River (1978, embroidery) and Marion Halligan’s Spider Cup (1990, embroidery).