Dimensional Cloth

A look at 78 artists who are using cloth to reimagine traditional sculptural formsincludes 350+ fabric sculptures, artist profiles, and insights into their creative processes.

Sculpture is no longer limited to materials like stone or metal. Sculpting in fabric is shown in ingenious detail here, with more than 350lavish photographs of 3-D cloth configurations along with insightful profiles of the 78artists who created them. The images and text capture the currents that are powering these works, like thedo-it-yourself (DIY) movement established in the 1990s and the currentrevival of the revolutionary sculptural cloth of the 1960s.

Works are approached through five themes: investigating nature, capturing the ephemeral, playing with space, telling a story, and “Take Heed.” In her foreword, renowned fiber art expert Josephine Stealey helps us put this art form in context, from its origins in 1880 Englands arts and craft movement to today.

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[AuthorName]By Andra F. Stanton and Foreword by Josephine Stealey[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Andra F. Stanton, a retired psychotherapist, currently writes about and manipulates fabric in Boulder, Colorado. Her other books include Zapotec Weavers of Teotitln. Josephine Stealey is chair of the department of art at the University of Missouri.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]358 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]358 color images[/ColorPattern]