Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

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Author: Schwartz, AlexandraPioneered by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, garmenting as an artistic strategy emerged during the 1960s and ’70s. Chronicling contemporary art’s engag ement with costume, this volume shows how visual artists around the globe are using garments to examine issues of subjectivity, identity and difference. Featuring 35 international artists, the title is organised around five interrelated themes: functionality, cultural difference, gender, activism and performance.Pioneered by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, garmenting as an artistic strategy emerged during the 1960s and ’70s, and came to further prominence during the 1990s, with work by artists such as Nick Cave, Yinka Shonibare and Andrea Zittel, and has flourished in recent years.Artists include: Xenobia Bailey, Raphaël Barontini, Sanford Biggers, Karina Bisch, Zoë Buckman, Nick Cave, Enoch Cheng, Sylvie Fleury, Jeffrey Gibson, Annette Messager, Mark Newport, Raúl de Nieves, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Jacolby Satterwhite, Devan Shimoyama, Yinka Shonibare, Mary Sibande, Franz Erhard Walther and Saya Woolfalk.ISBN 9781646570072. Museum of Arts and Design. pb. 136 pages. 75 colour ills. 30 x 20 cm.reprinting Show more