This book looks at a group of artists and sculptors who use the techniques of knitting and the concepts of lacemaking to produce works that take the form of freestanding sculptures, architectural interventions, sound &amp; video works and performance art Includes an index of artists and exhibited works Published in association with the Museum of Arts and Design, New York Radical Lace &amp; Subversive Knitting presents an array of works that reflect the energy, vitality and innovation demonstrated by a diverse group of contemporary artists who apply traditional knitting and lacemaking techniques to unusual materials, or new techniques and technologies to traditional materials. The works brought together here are by artists from many different countries. Individually these works speak to the pervasive and persuasive cultural, social, and political issues with which art intersects today. The role of hand work as a symbol of community and communication is highlighted in many of these pieces, and the artist's personal commitment to collaborative experiments is the focus of others. The works are also barometers of change in the visual arts of our time, signaling the dissolving of the categories of art, craft and design that have fragmented the world of aesthetic and functional objects for more than a century. David Revere McFadden is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts &amp; Design, New York.

Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

McFadden, David Revere

Scanlan, Jennifer

Edwards, Jennifer Steifle

Reference

Museum of Arts & Design

Dual Vision : The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting

Arts & Photography

David Revere McFadden

Jennifer Scanlan

Museum Of Arts & Design

Jennifer Steif

Decorative Arts & Design

Pricked: Extreme Embroidery

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MCFADDEN, DAVID, EDITOR

Crafts & Hobbies

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Jessica Scarlata

"Dead or Alive", presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from April 27 - October 24, 2010, showcased the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures. In "Dead or Alive", the materials transformed by each of the artists are entirely natural. Once-living parts of flora and fauna are recombined and rearranged into works of art that address the transience of life, and all that is elegant and alarming about the natural world. Dead or Alive featured new site-specific installations and recent work by contemporary artists from around the world, including Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn, Ralph Nauta, Tanja Smeets, and Levi van Veluw; others whose work was presented include Jennifer Angus, Nick Cave, Tessa Farmer, Tim Hawkinson, Jochem Hendricks, Damien Hirst, Alastair Mackie, Kate MccGwire, Susie MacMurray, Shen Shaomin, among others. New commissions included works by Costa Rican artist Lucia Madriz, who created a massive, politically charged floor installation made from black beans and rice; German artist Christiane Löhr, who fabricates fragile nests of thistle and dandelion silk suspended in the air; American artist Jennifer Angus, known for her architectural interiors covered with thousands of dried insects that are pinned to mimic vintage wallpaper; and Kate MccGwire's large cascade of 1000s of pigeon feathers emanating from one of MAD's signature glass bands that cut across the gallery ceilings. Chinese artist Shen Shaomin created an imaginary animal skeleton made from pulverized bones; and internationally renowned installation artist Xu Bing exhibited a shadow version of a 24-foot Song Dynasty painting using only vegetable detritus, weeds, leaves, and roots.

Dead or Alive

McFadden, David Revere & Lowery Stokes Sims

The work of Daniel Brush (born 1947) does not fit neatly into the categories commonly used to describe contemporary art or craft. While he uses traditional art media such as pen and ink and paper or canvas, he also uses materials such as blocks of billet steel, pure aluminum, pure gold and precious gems; he also makes exquisite jewelry. These mysterious artworks--drawings, paintings, small sculptures, jewelry and other objects hard to classify--reveal, upon close inspection, details that are astonishing in their precision and technical facility. Most of Brush's work is in private collections around the world, and it is rarely seen in public. Containing more than 450 photographs (all of which represent the artworks at their actual size), this book shows much of the artist's work of the last decade and affords a rare opportunity to contemplate these objects.

Daniel Brush

Littman, Brett

Brush, Olivia

Hamilton, Saskia

Keegan, Paul

Individual Artists

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation. Contemporary Native North American Art From the Northeast and Southeast, Volume 3

Taubman, Ellen & David Revere McFadden

Text and full color photos of exhibits from the exhibition of the same title. Hardcover binding.

Body & Soul: New International Ceramics

Kaplan, Wendy Tarlow, Martin S. Kaplan & Laurent de Verneuil

Corporal Identity - Body Language (Corporal Identity - Korpersprache)

Runde, Sabine

Preu, Nancy

Schmidt-Gartner, Christine

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