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Radical tradition : American quilts and social change

Title
Radical tradition : American quilts and social change / Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art.
Author
Applebaum, Lauren
Publication
  • Toledo : Toledo Museum of Art, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Toledo Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.
Description
99 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts highlighted in this catalogue, some made from surprising materials, are organized into five thematic sections--Deploying Quilts from the Home Front, Threads of Racial Justice, Women's Hands at Work, Quilting Queerness, and Dislocation & Displacement--and respond to such issues as the Vietnam War, mass incarceration, women's suffrage, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration. With works reflecting historical, regional, and cultural diversity, Radical Tradition considers how quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present"--Back cover.
Alternative Title
American quilts and social change
Subject
  • Toledo Museum of Art > Exhibitions
  • Toledo Museum of Art
  • Quilts > United States > Exhibitions
  • Art and social action > United States > Exhibitions
  • Arts and society > United States > Exhibitions
  • Textile crafts > United States > Exhibitions
  • Art and social action
  • Arts and society
  • Quilts
  • Textile crafts
  • United States
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, exclusively at the Toledo Museum of Art, November 21, 2020-February 14, 2021"--Title page verso.
  • "This book was created with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page verso.
  • Among the artists represented are: Gina Adams, Terese Agnew, Sanford Biggers, Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, Kathryn Clark, Jeffrey Gibson, Gen Guracar, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jean Ray Laury, Aaron McIntosh, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Faith Ringgold, LJ Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Anthony Sonnenberg, Hank Willis Thomas and Anna Von Mertens, Diana Weymar, Estelle Witherspoon.
Contents
Introduction -- Deploying quilts from the home front -- Threads of racial justice -- Women's hands at work -- Quilting queerness -- Dislocation & displacement -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Photo credits.
Call Number
TT835
ISBN
  • 9780935172607
  • 0935172602
OCLC
  • 1222919005
  • on1222919005
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries