1st Edition
Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft Shadows of Affect
By John Corso-Esquivel
Copyright 2019
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
17 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
17 Color & 49 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art—long disparaged in the wake of the high–low dichotomy of late... Read more
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Stranger Twins; 2. On Craft and Repetition; 3. Down to the Wire; 4. Subjectivities Before Subjects; 5. Matrixial Shadows; Index
Biography
John Corso-Esquivel is an associate professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has served terms as the Doris and Paul Travis endowed chair in art history at Oakland and the Critical Studies and Humanities Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA.
