The modernist textile : Europe and America, 1890-1940 / Virginia Gardner Troy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troy, Virginia Gardner, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile design--History--20th century.

Textile design.

Textile design--History--19th century.

Modernism (Art).

History.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot : Lund Humphries, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction : Objects of neglect ; Objects of value.

Ch.1. The new art 1890-1905 : The total work of art ; The new art in Europe ; The new art: embroidery ; Decorative painting and textiles ; The art showroom ; Experimental approaches to design ; The new art in Britain and America ; The new art: tapestry.

Ch.2. Primitivism, abstraction and experimentation 1905-1920 : The Wiener Werkstätte ; Artistic collaborations in the Ateliers and Maison ; Primitivism and the art market ; Abstraction ; Subversive textiles ; Modernist textiles in America.

Ch.3. Surface-designed and embellished textiles from the 1920s : Other worlds: Cross-cultural sources ; Geometric design ; Art, politics and commerce ; Formulae for design ; The modernist pictorial textile in Europe ; The pictorial textile in America.

Ch.4. Constructed textiles 1920-1940 : The Bauhaus in Weimar, 1919-1925 ; The Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin, 1925-1932 ; Constructivist textiles beyond the Bauhaus ; The Constructivist impulse in America.

Ch.5. Nationalism, Surrealism and Pictorialism in the 1930s : The American identity ; Modernist impulses and the American identity ; American Regionalism and Revivalism ; The political agenda ; Alternative impulses ; The pictorial tapestry ; Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780853319009

0853319006

OCLC:

67374945