The Modernist Textile: Europe and America, 1890-1940

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Lund Humphries, 2006 - 192 páginas
Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the Modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors saw textiles, particularly the abstract and handcrafted textiles from non-Western societies, as attractive alternatives to the European academic art tradition. Virginia Gardner Troy examines the importance of textiles within the context of 20th-century art and design.

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INTRODUCTION
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Embroidery
5
Experimental Approaches to Design
7
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Virginia Gardner Troy is Associate Professor of Art History at Berry College, Georgia, USA. She is the author of Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain (Ashgate, 2002).

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