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Reparative Craft : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick As a Textile Artist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Jason.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky--Criticism and interpretation.
- Textile artists--United States.
- Textile artists.
- Emotions in art.
- Art therapy.
- Breast cancer patients as artists--United States.
- Breast cancer patients as artists.
- Critical theory.
- Queer theory.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Reparative Craft explores acclaimed queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work as a textile artist. Jason Edwards focuses on the period between 1996 and 2005, exploring Sedgwick's early patchwork experiments and weavings, as well as the public exhibitions of her work. Reparative Craft combines close readings of Sedgwick's poetry, autobiography, and literary theory, with equally close readings of her textiles. Edwards contextualizes Sedgwick's textiles in the period after her diagnosis with metastatic breast cancer and understands her textiles and collages to be a profound, reparative way of managing that experience, by becoming interested in it and understanding it as a source of potential creativity as well as a mortal threat. The book thinks about Sedgwick's love of indigo, cyanotype, kimono silk scraps, Gary Fisher, Marcel Proust, Henry James, James Merrill, and Andy Warhol, as well as of the textile techniques of patchwork, suminagashi and shibori. In so doing, Reparative Craft suggests that Sedgwick's late life Buddhist craft represent a model of how to live and die well"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reparative Craft: Reading, Reparatively, (or) Sedgwick's Textiles
- The First Four Pages of a Texture Book (c.1996-1999)
- A Weft is Being Beaten, or, Weaving in the Cybernetic Fold (c.1996-1999)
- Floating Columns (1999-2000)
- In the Bardo, or, Epistemology of a Different Closet (1999-2000)
- Bodhisattva Fractal World (2002)
- Works in Fiber, Paper, and Proust (2005)
- An Inward Accumulation of a Wealth of Materials.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6246-0
- OCLC:
- 1600520787
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