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Marsha MacDowell - Quilt Arts of South Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Quilt Arts of South Africa

Threaded Legacies

Av Marsha MacDowell

523 kr

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Beskrivning
In the southernmost region of the African continent, women have been piecing together materials—textile construction techniques commonly used in quilting— to create bed coverings throughout the history of the San and Khoi peoples. From the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century, an influx of Dutch, French, Indian, and British military personnel, traders, miners, and missionaries came to South Africa, bringing with them their own cultural traditions, including making and using quilts. Today, the making of quilts in South Africa is flourishing.Quilt Arts of South Africa stitches together the history, production, and significance of quilt making from its earliest appearance in the continent's southernmost region to the twenty-first century. With input from curators, linguists, art historians, activist artists, and folklorists, this book presents disparate yet connected inquiries into a wide-ranging history of the quilt. These perspectives connect a rich expressive art to place, showing how the quilting traditions in South Africa together reflect a unique cultural history and natural landscape.Itself pieced together from diverse voices, Quilt Arts of South Africa offers glimpses into the histories and meanings of quilting in South Africa.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-27
  • Mått: 216 x 279 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 1 270 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 250
  • Förlag: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN: 9780253072580
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Marsha MacDowell is Professor of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University, Curator at the Michigan State University Museum, and Director of the Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org). She has authored many publications on traditional material culture and quiltmaking, including Quilts and Health.

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"An engaging rediscovery of a key art form and practice, much of which is shrouded in, and grounded in, South Africa's political background. This is another way of rewriting history through the art practices of primarily women, in this case."—Kate Wells, author of Fabric Dyeing and Printing"This is a well-researched publication that innovatively focuses on different areas of South African history through quilt and textile art produced by local artists. A great read and a must-have for one's book collection."—Nelisiwe Mkhize, Director, William Humphreys Art Gallery"Already an eminent scholar of quilting and quilt making in several regional and ethnic communities in the United States, Dr. Marsha MacDowell has assembled a groundbreaking volume that offers never-before-seen information and perspectives about the quilt-making history, traditions, aesthetics, cultures, and artists of South Africa. Readers will find insights about the diversity and richness of South African quilting practices written by an international group of multidisciplinary scholars. As an artist scholar, it is a volume to which I will return many times."—Diana Baird N'Diaye, Creative Director, African American Craft Alliance

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