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Weaving Modernities <\/em><\/strong>traces a century and a half of French tapestry history, from the founding of the Pinton manufacture in Felletin in 1867 to the present day. The book shows how this artisanal craft moved through the major turning points of the 20th century, from the decorator-designers of the 1920s through the postwar years to its contemporary revival.<\/p>\n

Artists follow one another across the decades: Lurçat, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Frank Stella and Joseph Albers, through to Claire Tabouret, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Beatriz Milhazes, Glenn Brown and Louise Bonnet today. A chapter by Barbara Jeauffroy-Mairet also tells a more unexpected side of this history: milliner Claude Saint Cyr, who in the 1950s applied Aubusson tapestry to hats, coats and shoes. The book also revisits the major commissions that brought the manufacture international renown: the immense Christ in Majesty woven for Coventry Cathedral, the monumental Vardanank for the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, and the curtains of the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n

Richly illustrated with tapestries, unpublished archives and artists’ cartoons, the book also features two voices: artist Jean-Luc Moulène and Jacques Bourdeix, cartoonist and colorist at Pinton since 1970.<\/p>\n

Text in English and French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A century and a half of French tapestry history, from the Pinton manufacture’s founding in 1867 to today, through the artists, craftspeople and commissions that shaped it. Text in English and French.
1921-1939 From Decorators to Cartoon Designers
\n– The Early Years of the Pinton Manufacture
\n– 1920: The Birth of the Tapestry of Ensemblier-Decorators
\n– The Turning Point of the 1930s: Tapestry Revival or Renaissance?<\/p>\n

1939-1945 The War Years
\n– Weaving to Survive
\n– The Decorator-Ensembliers at Work
\n– Public Commissions in the 1940s
\n– When Tapestry Meets Fashion<\/p>\n

1946-1986 Pinton in a New World
\n– Tapestry Unleashed: New Perspectives, New Approaches
\n– From the Renaissance of Tapestry to Contemporary Art
\n– The Internationalization of Pinton, Public Commissions, and Major Projects<\/p>\n

1986-2026 Crisis and Rebirth
\n– Years of Crisis, Resilience, and Adaptation at the Pinton Manufacture
\n– The Return of Tapestry<\/p>\n

Interview with Jean-Luc Moulène
\nInterview with Jacques Bourdeix
\nBibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21580],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-78253","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-decorative-arts","author-by-author-elie-chich","author-by-author-nathalie-fontes","publisher-editions-norma","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWeaving Modernities - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/weaving-modernities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weaving Modernities - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A century and a half of French tapestry history, from the Pinton manufacture's founding in 1867 to today, through the artists, craftspeople and commissions that shaped it. 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