A philosophy of textile : between practice and theory / Catherine Dormor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dormor, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--Philosophy.

Textile fabrics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 130 p.) : ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury, 2020.

Summary:

"Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than parallel modes. This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the language and materiality of textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making. Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the material behaviours and philosophical language of folding, shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven together"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Plates

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Textile as making: techne between practice and theory

Weaving the chapters

(Inter)mingling

Chapter 1: Folding

An unfolding of making

Metaphorics and metonymy as enfolding modes for thinking

Textile-space

La Maison Baroque

Chapter 2: Textile as shimmering surface

Veils: A space of scintillation

Faintly gleaming

Illicit encounters

Absurdity

Through the looking glass

Chapter 3: Seaming

Seaming as Passage

Hand and machine stitching

Seaming as suturing

Seaming as Trace

Conjunctions and crossings

Chapter 4: Textile as viscous substance

Attacking the boundary

Collapsing boundaries

Flow

Ontological secretions

A substance between two states

Chapter 5: Fraying

Frayed and fraying: A politics of translation

Frayed and fraying cloth: Broken and contingent

To the edge: Pointing away from the centre

Worn through

Fraying

Chapter 6: Textile as caressing subject/object

Affective touching

Proximity

Opening out

becoming . .

Measuring distance

First actions of hands

Synoptic-synthaesthetic caressing

Conclusion

Thinking-through-practice

Textile practices as methodology

Practice-theory interplay

Notes

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Online version: Dormor, Catherine, A philosophy of textile

ISBN:

9781474263238 (ebook)

9781472525659 (hbk.)

OCLC:

1119063261