This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art-long disparaged in the wake of the high-low dichotomy of late Modernism-is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.

About the Author

John Corso-Esquivel is an associate professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has served terms as the Doris and Paul Travis endowed chair in art history at Oakland and the Critical Studies and Humanities Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA.

Reviews

“An art critic and a respected scholar, Esquivel (Oakland Univ.) challenges the patriarchal traditions of male artists by drawing the reader’s gaze to the translucent installations and crafted fiber objects of eight female artists. … Recommended.”

–Choice

“This publication is highly recommended for scholars of craft, art history, and philosophy. For studio students, it is best suited to graduate studies, unless theory is emphasized in the curriculum.”

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Book InformationISBN 9780367785758Author John Corso-EsquivelFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 312g