AAH2017 43rd Annual Conference & Art Book Fair

AAH2017
43rd Annual Conference & Art Book Fair
Loughborough University
6th to 8th April 2017

Textile, Art & Design: Reciprocity and development

 

Convenors:

Alice Kettle, Manchester Metropolitan University, [email protected]k
Uthra Rajgopal, Manchester Metropolitan University, [email protected]

The reciprocity and division of textiles and the fine arts are in continual negotiation. This session examines the nexus between the fine and decorative arts, craft making and commercial production. Many artists of the 20th century such as Abakanowicz, Dali, Delaunay, Matisse, Moore, Parker, Picasso, Paolozzi and Warhol (to name but a few) have been celebrated for their collaborations in sculpture and/or pattern making, but this approach presents one avenue of the artist's intervention in textiles. This session will consider a wider view, asking how contributions of textile designers and artists working across a spectrum of geographical and historical periods, such as those working in Spitalfields, Lyon, Japan or India for example, or designers such as Dora Batty, Marian Clayden, Marion Dorn, Bernat Klein or John Piper influenced and collaborated with artists, fashion designers and art movements or contributed to the synergy of these practices.

In this session we welcome papers from academics, researchers, textile artists, textile and fashion historians, curators and archivists. The term textile can be interpreted in its widest sense.

Suggestions for proposals of papers or panel discussions include but are not limited:

' The evolution and circulation of a particular motif in woven or printed textiles
' Artists/designers and textiles: an exploration of their oeuvre through pattern making
' The influence of textile designers in art/dress/fashion history
' Historical and contemporary collaborations between artists and textile designers
Please email your paper proposals straight to the session convenor(s). Provide a title and abstract for a 25 minute paper (max 250 words). Include your name, affiliation and email. Your paper title should be concise and accurately reflect what the paper is about (it should 'say what it does on the tin') because the title is what appears most first and foremost online, in social media and in the printed programme.

You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks. Do not send proposals to the Conference Administrator or the Conference Convenor.

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 7 November 2016

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