Pictures Made of Wool
Pictures Made of Wool
Weaving Labor in th e Workshop
Chapter one examines the workshop’s early years (1919-23), when its tapestries and carpets were understood as “pictures made of wool,” and weaving lacked a theoretical armature. Expressionist artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten saw painting as a conduit to the artist’s soul, while weaving was too domestic and laborious to hold significant depth. Setting these objects and texts against contemporaneous, Marxist debates about labor, this chapter considers the vexed status of abstraction in the Weimar Republic.
Keywords: Textile, Weaving, Bauhaus, Modernism, Medium-specificity, Media, Fiber Art, Craft, Design
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