Virginia Gardner Troy
Lund Humphries
Hardback
192
2006
Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors saw textiles particularly the abstract and handcrafted textiles from non-Western societies as attractive alternatives to the European academic art tradition. Virginia Gardner Troy examines the importance of textiles within the context of twentieth-century art and design.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
192
2006
Decorative and applied arts played a major role in shaping the modernist aesthetic. Western artists and collectors saw textiles particularly the abstract and handcrafted textiles from non-Western societies as attractive alternatives to the European academic art tradition. Virginia Gardner Troy examines the importance of textiles within the context of twentieth-century art and design.