Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)

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.

John Corso-Esquivel is an associate professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has served terms as the Doris and Paul Travis endowed chair in art history at Oakland and the Critical Studies and Humanities Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA.