1st Edition
Hooked Rugs Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design
By Cynthia Fowler
Copyright 2013
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the avant-garde, this study demonstrates that they were a significant part of the artistic production of many artists engaged in modernist... Read more
Contents: Introduction: positioning the modernist hooked rug within the history of American art, craft and design; Beginnings: traditional and modern converged; The design workshop and the New Age association; Hooked rug production in North Carolina and Maine; Hooked rugs for the modern American home; Hooked rugs and the art in industry effort; Epilogue: the modernist hooked rug in retrospect; Bibliography and further reading; Index.
Biography
Cynthia Fowler is an art historian and Associate Professor of Art at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, USA.
'The articulation of craft's complex position in modernism is perhaps the most salient of the book's achievements. Fowler's history is straightforward, well referenced and clear.' Textile History
