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From Collectives to Corporations: Sheila Hicks’ Transnational Air/Craft
Throughout the mid-1960s and 1970s, American artist Sheila Hicks executed large-scale fiber commissions for transportation, communication, and finance companies. During this same period, she also collaborated with workshops in Mexico, India, and Morocco to reinvigorate textile industries in these countries. These poles of Hicks’ practice collided in the untitled abstract tapestries she embroidered for Air France’s Boeing 747 aircraft (1969–77), which obliquely reference the textiles she concurrently produced in settings that were decidedly non-corporate. Rather than straightforwardly representing these sources, however, Hicks’ tapestries comprise ambivalent visual signifiers that slip between and through different cultural identifications, simultaneously exposing and obscuring networks of global labor.
From Collectives to Corporations: Sheila Hicks’ Transnational Air/Craft
Throughout the mid-1960s and 1970s, American artist Sheila Hicks executed large-scale fiber commissions for transportation, communication, and finance companies. During this same period, she also collaborated with workshops in Mexico, India, and Morocco to reinvigorate textile industries in these countries. These poles of Hicks’ practice collided in the untitled abstract tapestries she embroidered for Air France’s Boeing 747 aircraft (1969–77), which obliquely reference the textiles she concurrently produced in settings that were decidedly non-corporate. Rather than straightforwardly representing these sources, however, Hicks’ tapestries comprise ambivalent visual signifiers that slip between and through different cultural identifications, simultaneously exposing and obscuring networks of global labor.
From Collectives to Corporations: Sheila Hicks’ Transnational Air/Craft
Parrish, Sarah (author)
Design and Culture ; 8 ; 79-99
2016-01-02
21 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
labor , work , Sheila Hicks , Air France , tapestry , globalization , craft , fiber
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