Art & textiles : fabric as material and concept in modern art from Klimt to the present / edited by Markus BruÌderlin ; with contributions by Hartmut BoÌhme [and 11 others] ; translations, Amy J. Klement]

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, October 12, 2013-March 2, 2014; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 21-June 22, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to the exhibition: the birth of abstraction from the spirit of the textile and the conquest of the fabric space / Markus Br©ơderlin -- Mythology and aesthetics of the textile / Hartmut B©Åhme -- Cloth and consciousness: our deep connotions: on the social and spiritual significance of the textile / Beverly Gordon -- ON the cultural anthropology of the textile / Ulrich Heinen in conversation with Bazon Brock -- Architecture in the age of disentangled authorship: textile impulses since the sixties / Emmanuel Petit -- Unfolding textile spaces: antiquity/modern period / Tristan Weddigen -- Catalogue : From Klimt to Matisse: painting wants to become textile, textile wants to become painting, circa 1900, Art Nouveau and the fertile interweaving of art and applied art ; The birth of abstraction from the spirit of the textile, 1914-33: Weaving and invention before and during the Bauhaus period ; The "un-winding": liberating the thread from the image into space, the fifties and today: art informer and the birth of fiber art ; Joseph Beuys and the fabric of the social, the sixties and seventies: felt, Fluxus, anti-form ; Soft bodies and inner textile worlds, the sixties, seventies, and today: soft art and Arte Povera ; Texture: the surface of space, the sixties and seventies: minimal art and postminimalism ; Global art and the universality of the textile: Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Orient, and the West: between cultures ; Spiderwomen: Bourgeois, Trockel, Hatoum, Amer ; Fabrics between material and spirit: the preserving, healing, and maltreated canvas ; ArchiTextile: clothed walls from the middle ages to today ; Networks: from mummy shroud to the world wide web -- Essays : Fabrics and painting: the interaction between fine and applied art around 1900: a European movement / Marie-AmeÌlie zu Salm-Salm -- Spiderwomen: violability, vulnerability, and analogous stitching: the reevaluation of gender-specific clicheÌs / Julia Wallner -- Textile turning points: on the role of material and concept in contemporary art / Uta Ruhkamp ; Caught in the tangle of the net: on a history of the network metaphor / Birgit Schneider -- Global art: how can intercultural dialogue be staged in an exhibition context? / Markus BruÌderlin -- The thread running between textile art and painting: an exhibition curator's journey among cultures / Jean-Hubert Martin -- Glossary.