Research Catalog

Title

Fast fashion slow art / edited by Bibiana Obler and Phyllis Rosenzweig ; with essays by Kirsty Robertson and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.

Publication

New York, NY : Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., [2019]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, host institution.
• Obler, Bibiana K.,
• Robertson, Kirsty, 1976-
• Rosenzweig, Phyllis D.,
• Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), host institution.
• Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen.

Description

67 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

This elegantly designed and provocative new publication focuses on videos, performances and installations by a diverse group of contemporary artists and filmmakers that encourage scrutiny of contemporary textile production and distribution. Is it possible to protect workers' rights and ensure safe working conditions while keeping up with consumer demands? How does technology affect the experience and conditions of labour? What skills does the mass production of textiles require? Can design and technology offer sustainable solutions to the environmental effects of fast fashion? What role do art and popular culture have in raising consumer consciousness? These questions and more will catalyse broad-ranging conversations about issues such as the merits of the local and tailor-made versus the global mass production of fast fashion. Exhibition: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, USA (08.08.-15.12.2019) / Textile Museum and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA (January 30-August 2, 2020).

Alternative Title

Fast fashion/slow art

Subjects

• Fashion in art > Exhibitions
• Textile industry > Moral and ethical aspects > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Social responsibility of business > Exhibitions
• Mass production > Exhibitions
• Fashion in motion pictures > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fast fashion/slow art, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine in cooperation with the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University and the George Washington University Museum / Textile Museum, Washington, DC. On view in ... the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington DC; ... the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine"--Colophon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and filmograhy.

ISBN

• 9781785512230
• 1785512234

LCCN

2019002753

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries