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On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

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Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year 27/03/2018
Pages 174
Version hardback
Readership level General/trade
Language English
ISBN 9781472477644
Categories The arts: general issues
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On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper's discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and emerges from the reading of photographs, a swatch of Harris Tweed and curtain wall facade juxtaposed. In juxtaposing the fabric of the city with the weave of Harris Tweed the book charts an original course across a range of connected ideas and questions, combining many different themes, writers and disciplines. It presents integrated and innovative rethinkings on a number of fundamental relationships, including correlations between body and building, word and image, and between the rural and the metropolitan, and the hand-crafted and the mass-reproduced. In doing so, it seeks to foreground the very interrelationship of surface and place, as it makes a claim for the relational nature of the world in which we live. "On Surface and Place invents a compositional theory of matter and idea. The ontology of weaving meets architectural surface as an opening for thought and practice. Peta Carlin skillfully and beautifully creates a cartography in which social, material, aesthetic and political registers touch."





Kathleen C. Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA





"Between her photographs of Melbourne's curtain wall facades and memories of travels to the Outer Hebrides, Carlin weaves lines of thought from art, architecture, literature, and philosophy, into a poetic, thought-provoking topography."


Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia.

On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

Table of contents

1. On | Opening 2. Appearing | Weaving 3. Wall | Face 4. Image | Word 5. Surface | Pattern 6. Place | Dressing 7. Ritual | Repetition 8. Text | Memory 9. On | Closing Index

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