Description
Setting out to celebrate, document and discuss the work and role of an international tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios, since its foundation in Edinburgh in 1912, this ground-breaking publication uniquely explores the artistic value, nature and identity of modern tapestry through images, essays and the commentaries of weavers, artists and patrons.
Dovecot Studios has constantly evolved since it was established before the Great War. Initial Arts and Crafts ideals developed into a more proactive engagement with modernism from the 1950s, when designs came from leading British artists such as Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Cecil Beaton and John Piper. In the 1960s international ambition partnered a quest for experimentation, as characterised by collaborations with artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell and Louise Nevelson. Throughout Dovecot's long history many Scottish artists have worked with the tapestry studio, and their intuitive sense of design and colour has often been richly matched by the imagination of the artist weavers. Experiment and partnership with innovative artists and makers have been, and actively remain, key to Dovecot's unique position within the fields of craft and contemporary art.
Discussing Dovecot's history along with its contemporary work, and exploring the range of textiles produced by the Studio - which include wall hangings, chair-cover designs, carpets, textile mobiles and formal robes - The Art of Modern Tapestry offers the definitive account of one of the world's most innovative centres of textile-art production.
About the Author
Art historian and curator, Dr Elizabeth Cumming is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a former Keeper of the Edinburgh City Art Centre and lecturer in design history at Edinburgh College of Art. David Weir practised as a lawyer in Glasgow and London before moving to live and work in France. Since 2000, as Director of Dovecot Studios, he has devoted his time to re-energising and developing its artistic vision and activity.
Reviews
'This sumptuously illustrated catalogue charts the trials and tribulations, as well as the extraordinary talent of the world's longest running tapestry workshop.' Decorative Arts Society
Book Information
ISBN 9781848221055
Author Elizabeth Cumming
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 220mm * 23mm
Dovecot Studios has constantly evolved since it was established before the Great War. Initial Arts and Crafts ideals developed into a more proactive engagement with modernism from the 1950s, when designs came from leading British artists such as Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Cecil Beaton and John Piper. In the 1960s international ambition partnered a quest for experimentation, as characterised by collaborations with artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell and Louise Nevelson. Throughout Dovecot's long history many Scottish artists have worked with the tapestry studio, and their intuitive sense of design and colour has often been richly matched by the imagination of the artist weavers. Experiment and partnership with innovative artists and makers have been, and actively remain, key to Dovecot's unique position within the fields of craft and contemporary art.
Discussing Dovecot's history along with its contemporary work, and exploring the range of textiles produced by the Studio - which include wall hangings, chair-cover designs, carpets, textile mobiles and formal robes - The Art of Modern Tapestry offers the definitive account of one of the world's most innovative centres of textile-art production.
About the Author
Art historian and curator, Dr Elizabeth Cumming is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and a former Keeper of the Edinburgh City Art Centre and lecturer in design history at Edinburgh College of Art. David Weir practised as a lawyer in Glasgow and London before moving to live and work in France. Since 2000, as Director of Dovecot Studios, he has devoted his time to re-energising and developing its artistic vision and activity.
Reviews
'This sumptuously illustrated catalogue charts the trials and tribulations, as well as the extraordinary talent of the world's longest running tapestry workshop.' Decorative Arts Society
Book Information
ISBN 9781848221055
Author Elizabeth Cumming
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 220mm * 23mm
