ABSTRACT

This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art—long disparaged in the wake of the high–low dichotomy of late Modernism—is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|26 pages

Stranger Twins

chapter 2|29 pages

On Craft and Repetition

chapter 3|26 pages

Down to the Wire

chapter 4|27 pages

Subjectivities Before Subjects

chapter 5|31 pages

Matrixial Shadows