Reckitt, Helena and Bryan-Wilson, Julia. 2017. 'Fray: Art and Textile Politics, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Helena Reckitt in conversation'. In: Fray: Art and Sexual Politics. Courtauld Institute, London, United Kingdom 24 November 2017. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Helena Reckitt joined the critic and art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson to mark the publication of her new book Fray: Art and Textile Politics. Julia Bryan-Wilson introduced the book’s focus of both fine art and amateur registers of hand making in art since 1970, unveiling insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art. After Bryan-Wilson’s introductory talk Reckitt joined her in conversation, with a moderated Q&A with the audience following.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Additional Information:	The event was sponsored by the Centre for American Art at the Courtauld Institute as part of the “Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory” seminar series.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 15 May 2017 Accepted 24 November 2017 Completed
Event Location:	Courtauld Institute, London, United Kingdom
Date range:	24 November 2017
Item ID:	22708
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2018 12:35
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:43
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/22708

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