Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New YorkAn unprecedented study that reveals tapestry's role as a modernist medium and a model for the movement's discourse on both sides of the Atlantic in the decades following World War II |
Contents
Medium | 13 |
chapter 2 | 59 |
chapter 3 | 107 |
chapter 4 | 157 |
Conclusion | 213 |
Abbreviations | 236 |
| 249 | |
Illustration Credits | 257 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York |
| Author | K. L. H. Wells |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2019 |
| ISBN | 0300232594, 9780300232592 |
| Length | 268 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / Contemporary (1945-) Design / Textile & Costume |
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