Sheila Hicks
Subtitle: hilos libres : el textil y sus raíces prehispánicas, 1954-2017 = Free threads : textile and its pre-Hispanic roots, 1954-2017
By: textos, Frédéric Bonnet, Carolina Arévalo, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Claudio Lomnitz
Contributors: Bonnet, Frédéric, writer of supplementary textual content; Arévalo, Carolina, writer of supplementary textual content; Pérez Oramas, Luis, 1960- writer of supplementary textual content; Lomnitz, Claudio, writer of supplementary textual content; Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico)
Publisher: Museo Amparo
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Puebla, Mexico
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9786079728588
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Fiberwork; Textile crafts; Miniature fiberwork; Color in textile crafts; Color in art
Other titles: Hilos libres :; Free threads :; Sheila Hicks.; Sheila Hicks. English.
Description: Considered one of the most innovative artists in the use of textiles, Sheila Hicks (Hastings, Nebraska, 1934, lives and works in Paris) has developed her career, which began in the mid-1950s, influenced by pre-Hispanic textiles and abstract painting. The catalog comprises Hicks' work from one of her first 1954 paintings to an installation designed for the Amparo Museum main entrance hall, a body of work that highlights her Latin American roots and influences. Although she lived in Mexico between 1959 and 1964, this her first exhibition in Mexico.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Amparo, Puebla, from November 4th, 2017-April 2nd, 2018.

Special cover: Page 1 of cover wrapped in green, yellow and red threads, with green and yellow threads protruding freely from book

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentación Museo Amparo = Museo Amparo presentation / Lucia I. Alonso Espinoza y Ramiro Ramírez; title: Painting with thread and fiber = La pintura en hilos y fibras / Frédéric Bonnet, originally composed in 1969 by Claude Lévi-Strauss (...); title: Essential writing: Sheila Hicks and the prehispanic art = Escritura esencial: Sheila Hicks y el arte prehispánico / Carolina Arévalo.