{"title":"Julia Bryan-Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulia Bryan-Wilson’s work delves into the complexities of contemporary art and its histories, offering incisive analysis through the lenses of feminism, labour, and materiality. Her books, including \u003cem\u003eFray\u003c\/em\u003e and studies on artists like Liz Collins and Louise Nevelson, reveal the intricate relationships between artistic practice and cultural context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect deeply researched narratives that balance scholarly rigour with accessible clarity, enriching their understanding of both individual artists and broader movements within \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges a boldly intersectional art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424936280300,"sku":"9780300236705","price":107.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300236705.jpg?v=1774768284"},{"product_id":"liz-collins-by-julia-bryan-wilson-9783777444482","title":"Liz Collins","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis groundbreaking volume positions Liz Collins as a singular figure who not only synthesises fine art, craft and fashion and textile design, but also advocates fiercely for queer and feminist politics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollins is a queer feminist artist known for her radical deployment of fibre, her activism around labour and gender politics, and her exploration of the borderlands between art, design and craft. \u003cem\u003eMotherlode\u003c\/em\u003e assembles her work from the late 1990s to the present day, introducing needlework, drawings and including documentation and large-scale sculpture. Contributors survey her life and career, address her unique relationship to craft and labour, and celebrate vital resonances in her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455618564332,"sku":"9783777444482","price":90.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81iFo2B18gL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774788151"},{"product_id":"fray-by-julia-bryan-wilson-9780226077819","title":"Fray","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—\u003cem\u003eFray\u003c\/em\u003e explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClosely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high\/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. Her case studies from the 1970s through the 1990s—including the improvised costumes of the theatre troupe the Cockettes, the braided rag rugs of US artist Harmony Hammond, the thread-based sculptures of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, the small hand-sewn tapestries depicting Pinochet’s torture, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt—are often taken as evidence of the inherently progressive nature of handcrafted textiles. \u003cem\u003eFray\u003c\/em\u003e, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labour, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fibre means that textiles can be activated, or stretched, in many ideological directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first contemporary art history book to discuss both fine art and amateur registers of handmaking at such an expansive scale, \u003cem\u003eFray\u003c\/em\u003e unveils crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596437111020,"sku":"9780226077819","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d8c5c153aa379e386b44c6fa6d44a1a9.jpg?v=1777929174"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/julia-bryan-wilson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}