Publisher:
Museum of Fine Arts, February 10 - March 25, 2012.
Seller ID: 8669bd
Large octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated wrappers), slick cardstock pages, [64] pp. Fine (As New). ÒThread of Life, as the title of the exhibition suggests, focuses on textiles as art. Textile art, prior to the 1960s, was barely thinkable as a concept in the United States. Art critics and historians categorized textiles as craft. In the 1960s the concept of textiles as art received impetus from a few artists and curators. During the past fifty years the boundaries have continued shifting and the catgeory acquaired ever more praciticng adherents, often women. In the 1970s, t... View More...
