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Stitching the self : identity and the needle arts /
The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities - social, political, and often non-conformist - are craf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of FiguresList of PlatesList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Stitching the self ...Johanna Amos and Lisa BinkleyPart I: Emerging identity: Reconsidering the narratives of the needle1 The identity of an embroidering woman: The needle arts in Brussels, Belgium, 1850-1914Wendy Wiertz2 'Experiments in silk and gold work afterwards to bloom': The embroidering of Jane Burden MorrisJohanna Amos3 Becoming the boss of your knitting: Elizabeth Zimmermann and the emergence of critical knittingM. Lilly Marsh4 'Knitting is the saving of life; Adrian has taken it up too': Needlework, gender and the Bloomsbury group Joseph McBrinnPart II: Elaborating identity: Expressing ideology, crafting community5 Whig's Defeat: Stitching settler culture, politics, and identityLisa Binkley6 'From Prison to Citizenship,' 1910: The making and display of a suffragist bannerJanice Helland7 Our Lady of the Snows: Settlement, empire, and 'the children of Canada' in the needlework of Mary Seton Watts (1848-1938)Elaine Cheasley PatersonPart III: Recovering Identity: Locating the self through needlework8 'Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur': Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-25Sabine Wieber9 Hybrid language: The interstitial stitches of Anna Torma's embroideriesAnne Koval10 Suturing my soul: In pursuit of the Broderie de BayeuxJanet Catherine BerloIndex.