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SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: DOROTHEA TANNING
Image: Nue Couchée 1969-70; Cotton textile, cardboard, 7 table tennis balls, wool and thread; © DACS, 2022. Image courtesy of TateWritten by Deborah NashRecently on display in Tate Modern’s Surrealism Beyond Borders, Dorothea Tanning’s soft sculpture Pincushion to...
SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: DOROTHEA TANNING
Image: Nue Couchée 1969-70; Cotton textile, cardboard, 7 table tennis balls, wool and thread; © DACS, 2022. Image courtesy of TateWritten by Deborah NashRecently on display in Tate Modern’s Surrealism Beyond Borders, Dorothea Tanning’s soft sculpture Pincushion to...
SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: EILEEN AGAR
Image: British painter and photographer, Eileen Agar.By Deborah NashWho would not want to meet the Surrealist artist Eileen Agar (1899 – 1991)? Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father selling...
SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: EILEEN AGAR
Image: British painter and photographer, Eileen Agar.By Deborah NashWho would not want to meet the Surrealist artist Eileen Agar (1899 – 1991)? Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father selling...
SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: MÉRET OPPENHEIM
Image: Object 1936 (fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon). Image courtesy of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)By Deborah Nash“Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magical-circumstantial, or it will not be at all,” announced the father of...
SURREALIST TEXTILE OBJECTS: MÉRET OPPENHEIM
Image: Object 1936 (fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon). Image courtesy of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)By Deborah Nash“Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magical-circumstantial, or it will not be at all,” announced the father of...
ARTIST RUGS & CARPETS: THE EDWARD JAMES FOOTPRI...
Image: The Tilly Losch Footprint Carpet. Image courtesy of West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. Written by Deborah NashLittle did Tilly Losch know when tripping along the carpet from the bathroom to the...
ARTIST RUGS & CARPETS: THE EDWARD JAMES FOOTPRI...
Image: The Tilly Losch Footprint Carpet. Image courtesy of West Dean College of Arts and Conservation. Written by Deborah NashLittle did Tilly Losch know when tripping along the carpet from the bathroom to the...
ARTISTS CARPETS & RUGS: FRANCIS BACON
Image: Three wool rugs by Francis Bacon. Image courtesy of The Estate of Francis BaconBy Deborah NashWho would have guessed that the painter of screaming popes and tortured crucifixions had, in...
ARTISTS CARPETS & RUGS: FRANCIS BACON
Image: Three wool rugs by Francis Bacon. Image courtesy of The Estate of Francis BaconBy Deborah NashWho would have guessed that the painter of screaming popes and tortured crucifixions had, in...
ARTIST CARPETS & RUGS: VANESSA BELL
Image: Design for Omega Rug 1914, oil on paper, Vanessa BellBy Deborah NashThe painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) elder sister of Virginia Woolf, was regarded as the matriarch of the Bloomsbury...
ARTIST CARPETS & RUGS: VANESSA BELL
Image: Design for Omega Rug 1914, oil on paper, Vanessa BellBy Deborah NashThe painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) elder sister of Virginia Woolf, was regarded as the matriarch of the Bloomsbury...
