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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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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.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Modern Embroidery Movement in Context
- Chapter 3 Marguerite Zorach: The Roots of the Modern Embroidery Movement
- Chapter 4 Georgiana Brown Harbeson and Her Collaborators: Establishing the Modern Embroidery Movement
- Chapter 5 Collaboration
- Chapter 6 Visualizing Manhattan
- Chapter 7 Nature as Symbol
- Chapter 8 Embroidered Portraits
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
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