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A Fiber-Forward Vision of Modern Art

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By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles are an integral part of this history. A multitude of intertwined concepts (textile techniques and technologies, social and labor movements, politics, communities, culture and identity, cross-generational influence) come together to illuminate the ways craft, fashion, and design have intersected and melded over the past century.

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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