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Title Outside : activating cloth to enhance the way we live / edited by Penny Macbeth and Claire Barber
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (147 pages)
Summary Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live explores cloth's value, relevance and impact on societies today, recognising the constantly evolving fields of expression, often sited beyond art mediated contexts. The book explores cloth's potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion. Invited curators, philosophers, artists and scholars employ a variety of didactic styles that include the conversational, metaphoric ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
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Subject Textile crafts -- Social aspects
Textile fabrics -- Social aspects
Handicraft -- Social aspects
Political activism.
Installation art.
Textile artworks.
DESIGN -- Textile & Costume.
Handicraft -- Social aspects
Textile fabrics -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Macbeth, Penny, editor
Barber, Claire, editor
ISBN 9781443862509
1443862509
1306907160
9781306907163