Radicals and Rogues

Lottie Whalen is a writer, researcher and curator working in the fields of feminist history, avant-garde art and textiles. She is the co-founder of Decorating Dissidence, an interdisciplinary arts project that considers radical histories of craft and its potential as a force for change in the modern day. She lives in Glasgow.

"Lottie Whalen reveals that [New York’s] transformation in the early decades of the 20th Century was largely thanks to a bold, taboo-busting cohort of women who pushed boundaries both creatively and socially. As artists, writers, salon hosts and patrons they passionately embraced new forms of living, loving and creating." - Cath Pound, BBC Culture"We should stand up and salute this astoundingly far-reaching and delightfully detailed history of the salons, exhibitions, groupings and individual histories of avant-garde artists. Lottie Whalen illuminates the distinct moments essential to this panorama. A radical exposition of radical women." - Mary Ann Caws, author of Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism and Mina Loy: Apology of Genius."A brilliantly entertaining and enlightening study of New York in the early 20th century, a time when a diverse group of female artists, poets and patrons joyfully dismantled the limits society had set them – and created something new and wondrous in the process." - Jennifer Higgie, writer, art critic and author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

• IntroductionChapter 1: Hands, Hearts and NeedlesChapter 2: Learning to SewChapter 3: A Material WorldChapter 4: In the Gently Closed BoxChapter 5: Fruits of Our WorkChapter 6: The Business of the NeedleChapter 7: The Alternative Stitch [EdAQ: VC and I think this title works best, OK to leave?]Chapter 8: Into the FrayReferencesSelect BibliographyAssociations and WebsitesAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex