Gallery Tour—Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction jascencio Tue, 12/26/2023 - 11:46 Join a LACMA docent for a tour of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. Woven Histories foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by...
Gallery Tour—Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction jascencio Tue, 12/26/2023 - 11:46Join a LACMA docent for a tour of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction.
Woven Histories foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century. With over 150 works by an international and transhistorical roster of artists, this exhibition reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design, and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political forces, as they, in turn, were impacted by modernist art forms.
Andrea Zittel, White Felted Dress #3 from A–Z Fiber Form Uniforms, 2002, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by David and Susan Gersh
Free with museum admission