Radical tradition : American quilts and social change / Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Applebaum, Lauren, author.

Contributor:

Toledo Museum of Art, event place, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toledo Museum of Art.

Quilts--United States--Exhibitions.

Quilts.

Textile crafts.

Art and social action.

United States.

Art and social action--United States.

Arts and society--United States.

Arts and society.

Textile crafts--United States--Exhibitions.

Toledo Museum of Art--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toledo : Toledo Museum of Art, [2020]

Summary:

"Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts highlighted in this catalogue, some made from surprising materials, are organized into five thematic sections--Deploying Quilts from the Home Front, Threads of Racial Justice, Women's Hands at Work, Quilting Queerness, and Dislocation & Displacement--and respond to such issues as the Vietnam War, mass incarceration, women's suffrage, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration. With works reflecting historical, regional, and cultural diversity, Radical Tradition considers how quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Deploying quilts from the home front

Threads of racial justice

Women's hands at work

Quilting queerness

Dislocation & displacement

Lenders to the exhibition

Checklist of the exhibition

Photo credits.

Notes:

"This book was created with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page verso.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, exclusively at the Toledo Museum of Art, November 21, 2020-February 14, 2021"--Title page verso.

Among the artists represented are: Gina Adams, Terese Agnew, Sanford Biggers, Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, Kathryn Clark, Jeffrey Gibson, Gen Guracar, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jean Ray Laury, Aaron McIntosh, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Faith Ringgold, LJ Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Anthony Sonnenberg, Hank Willis Thomas and Anna Von Mertens, Diana Weymar, Estelle Witherspoon.

Local Notes:

Library's copy imperfect: cover bound on the right side of text and upside-down.

ISBN:

9780935172607

0935172602

OCLC:

1222919005