Sculpture is no longer limited to materials like stone or metal. Sculpting in fabric is shown in ingenious detail here, with more than 350 lavish photographs of 3-D cloth configurations along with insightful profiles of the 78 artists who created them. The images and text capture the currents that are powering these works, like the do-it-yourself (DIY) movement established in the 1990s and the current revival of the revolutionary sculptural cloth of the 1960s. Works are approached through five themes: investigating nature, capturing the ephemeral, playing with space, telling a story, and "Take Heed." In her foreword, renowned fiber art expert Josephine Stealey helps us put this art form in context, from its origins in 1880 England's arts and craft movement to today. This is essential reading and inspiration for collectors, students, home artists, and anyone who appreciates innovative artwork.

About the Author
Andra F. Stanton, a retired psychotherapist, currently writes about and manipulates fabric in Boulder, Colorado. Her other books include Zapotec Weavers of Teotitlan. Josephine Stealey is chair of the department of art at the University of Missouri.

Reviews
"A happy combination of overview and fine detail...a fantastic addition."
-- -Junco Sato Pollack, artist and retired Professor of Textiles at Georgia State University's E. G. Welch School of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia
"With its eclectic approach and broad reach, underpinned by the clarity of writing, this book makes a useful addition to the lexicon of dimensional textiles."
-- -Janet De Boer, former CEO, TAFTA (The Australian Forum for Textile Arts Ltd); former editor, Textile Fibre Forum Magazine
"If you don't know what people are doing with fiber, this book will be your doorway to a new world. If you do, you'll be studying each photo and asking, 'Hmmm . . . how did she do that?'"
-- -Janet Russell, award-winning basket maker; former president, National Basketry Organization
"A luscious range of processes, materials, textures and subjects . . . will compel you to look again and again."
-- -Adrienne Sloan, fiber artist and writer
"A primer on artistic rule breaking . . . a liberating celebration of boundary-pushing and experimental thinking that disrupts expectations and embodies endless possibilities for those interested in sculpture, contemporary art that happens to employ textile elements, and the breakdown of artistic categories in general."
-- -Kate Kretz, MFA, artist, associate professor of art



Book Information
ISBN 9780764355363
Author Josephine Stealey
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Publisher Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 1424g