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The Romance Of The Kashmere Shawl
Monique Levi-Strauss, Who Studied For A Degree In Science In Boston, Is A Fervent Collector And Expert On Cashmere Shawls, Which She Has Classified Accurately In Chronological Order.
Cashmere
A revised and expanded edition of Monique Lévi-Strauss's classic 1987 book on French cashmere shawls with superb photographs and a wealth of archive material The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl could be passed through a finger ring. Exquisite and expensive, by the nineteenth century these shawls were highly sought-after in France; enterprising French manufacturers soon saw that there was a market for more accessibly priced versions and started to create their own. Here is the story of French cashmere shawls of the nineteenth century. At first, the shawl-makers strove to imitate the traditional hand-made designs using modern techniques of mass production, but then they began to explore and innovate. As weaving technology evolved, motifs grew increasingly complex, expanding from the decorative borders and extending across the whole surface of the shawl and filling it with jewel-like colors.
The Cashmere Shawl
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Sheila Hicks
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Sheila Hicks: Lifelines
An admirer of pre-Columbian textiles, the artist uses large sculptures as well as miniature weaves to create tapestries that bring their color to life.
From Montaigne to Montaigne
Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération générale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque national de France, this lecture, “Ethnography: The Revolutionary Science,” discussed the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, to whom Lévi-Strauss would return in remarks delivered more than a half-century later, in the spring of 1992. Bracketing the career of one of the most celebrated ...
Kashmir Shawls
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Une enfance dans la gueule du loup
" Le récit de mon enfance peut se lire comme un témoignage : le destin singulier d'une enfant belge, fille de mère juive, à qui on impose de vivre en Allemagne de 1939 à 1945 sous le IIIe Reich. Ce livre raconte aussi l'histoire d'une adolescente aux prises avec ses parents qu'elle juge irresponsables parce qu'ils ont entraîné leur famille dans la gueule du loup. J'aurais dû tenir un journal entre treize et dix-neuf ans, pendant ces années de guerre où mon père nous avait emmenés dans l'Allemagne nazie, ma mère, mon frère et moi. Or, dès mai 1940, la Gestapo perquisitionnait nos chambres. Nous étions prévenus : toute trace écrite pouvait nous trahir. Non seulement nous devi...
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Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor
This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years. Focusing on 100 Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, it includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.
