Art Newspaper’s Christina Ruiz after visiting Christine Macel’s exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale. “I get it: domestic work, women’s work, is important and undervalued. But is it in itself art? No it is not.”
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Laura Gascoigne: Tangled Web – September 2017
“Why is there so much sewing?” demanded The
Art Newspaper’s Christina Ruiz after visiting Christine Macel’s exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale. “I get it: domestic work, women’s work, is important and undervalued. But is it in itself art? No it is not.”
the 18th
century tapestry began to feel fusty as audiences warmed to the immediacy of paint. A work’s value no longer resided in src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
the price of the wool, the skill of //-->
the src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
weavers, the total hours spent in production and associated cost, but in google_ad_height = 90;
the artist’s touch, the signature of
authenticity that connected audiences with the creator of the work, usually male.There was a time when so-called textile arts were prized above all others; when first unveiled google_ad_height = 90; in 1519, google_ad_width = 970; Raphael’s tapestries for the Sistine Chapel threatened to google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3967079123942817"; eclipse the fame of Michelangelo’s ceiling. But in
In the 1980s, when Rozsika Parker wrote The Subversive
an exhibition of young Los Angelino artists at the Mona Bismarck American Centre in Paris last year. More ambitiously, at the Minories Gallery, Colchester in 2015 Clare Sams’s installation Knitting Fever recreated the devastation caused by the 2009 floods when a wool shop of that name in Cockermouth spilled its guts through the Cumbrian google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3967079123942817"; town. The gallery complimented the artist on using a process “stereotypically viewed as a feminine past-time [sic]” to represent “cataclysmic forces not normally associated with the practice”.域名交易方式：
Stitch, she pinpointed “the separation //--> of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts” as “a major force in the marginalisation of women’s work”. But on the coattails of conceptualism, ‘women’s work’ has come back from the margins. Since the personal signature of the pen or brush fell under suspicion the needle has returned,立即购买>> BUY NOW>>
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young Malevich upset his father with his unhealthy aptitude for Ukrainian cross-stitch). The danger for women of challenging gender stereotypes around google_ad_slot = "6023194682"; textiles is that male artists will seize the initiative. Not content with getting tapestries woven to their designs, brothers are /* xin-1 */ doing it for themselves.我要购买>>
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a means of expression,which is why most attempts to employ it as one, Tracey Emin’s included, have been sew-so. The notable exception is Mr and Mrs Pope, Knitted, Shrunk and Hung
售价Listing Price:CNY 1280.00
(2012), a truly heart-wringing piecejb54.com
of work that google_ad_width = 970; – sorry girls! /* xin2 */ – was created by a male sculptor, Nicholas Pope, with his own fair hands.Laura Gascoigne
2017
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