Weaving modernism : postwar tapestry between Paris and New York / K. L. H. Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, K. L. H., author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

Painting, Modern--20th century.

Painting, Modern.

Tapestry--History--20th century.

Tapestry.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : 105 illustration, portrait

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"With a revelatory analysis of how the postwar French tapestry revival provided a medium for modern art and a model for its discourse and marketing on both sides of the Atlantic, Weaving Modernism presents a fascinating reexamination of modernism's relationship to decoration, reproducibility, and politics. Tapestry offered artists a historically grounded medium for distributing and marketing their work, helped expand the visibility and significance of abstraction at midcentury, and facilitated modernism's entry into the dominant paradigm of the postwar period. K. L. H. Wells situates tapestry as part of a broader "marketplace modernism" in which artists participated, conjuring a lived experience of visual culture in corporate lobbies, churches, and even airplanes, as well as in galleries and private homes. This extensively researched study features previously unpublished illustrations and little-known works by such major artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Stella"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Medium

Chapter 2. Revival

Chapter 3. Reproduction

Chapter 4. Decoration.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on August 3, 2021).

SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780300264289

0300264283

OCLC:

1262661337