The Modern Embroidery Movement
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The Modern Embroidery Movement

Cynthia Fowler

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Cynthia Fowler

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WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018 In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the United States. In the first scholarly examination of their work and influence, Cynthia Fowler explores the arguments presented by these pioneering women and their collaborators for embroidery to be considered as art. Using key exhibitions and contemporary criticism, The Modern Embroidery Movement focuses extensively on the individual work of Zorach and Brown Harbeson, casting a new light on their careers. Documenting a previously marginalised movement, Fowler brings together the history of craft, art and women's rights and firmly establishes embroidery as a significant aspect of modern art.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
ISBN
9781350033344
Edition
1
Topic
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10 
e 
Modern 
Embroidery 
Movement
both 
craſt 
objects 
and, 
more 
oſten 
than 
not, 
decorative 
in 
design, 
the 
modern 
embroideries 
discussed 
in 
this 
book 
can 
be 
categorized 
as 
“supplemental” 
and 
thus 
operate 
as 
an 
important 
historical 
challenge 
to 
the 
limited 
narrative 
of 
the 
history 
of 
art 
described 
by 
Adamson. 
Adamson 
also 
argues 
that 
idea 
of 
craſt 
as 
supplemental 
can 
be 
applied 
to 
its 
materiality 
in 
that 
“
material
specificity 
is 
oppositional 
to 
the 
ambition 
of 
modern 
art 
to 
achieve 
a 
purely 
visual 
effect” 
[Adamson’s 
emphasis].
38
e 
medium 
of 
embroidery 
has 
a 
specific 
relationship 
to 
materiality. 
Its 
haptic 
quality, 
particularly 
in 
some 
of 
the 
most 
heavily 
stitched 
Figure 
1.1 
Stitches 
Most 
Universally 
Used 
by 
Modern 
Needlepainters, 
Reproduced 
in 
“e 
Four 
Moderns 
in 
America, 
Exponents 
of 
the 
Newer 
Embroidery.” 
Bulletin 
of 
the 
Needle 
and 
Bobbin 
Club
19 
(1935): 
plate 
xiii.

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