Radical tradition
Subtitle: American quilts and social change
By: Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art
Contributors: Toledo Museum of Art
Publisher: Toledo Museum of Art
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Toledo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780935172607
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Quilts; Exhibitions; Art and social action; Arts and society; Textile crafts; Toledo Museum of Art
Other titles: American quilts and social change
Description: "Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts highlighted in this catalogue, some made from surprising materials, are organized into five thematic sections--Deploying Quilts from the Home Front, Threads of Racial Justice, Women's Hands at Work, Quilting Queerness, and Dislocation & Displacement--and respond to such issues as the Vietnam War, mass incarceration, women's suffrage, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration. With works reflecting historical, regional, and cultural diversity, Radical Tradition considers how quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present"--Back cover.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, exclusively at the Toledo Museum of Art, November 21, 2020-February 14, 2021"--Title page verso.

"This book was created with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page verso.

Among the artists represented are: Gina Adams, Terese Agnew, Sanford Biggers, Bisa Butler, Judy Chicago, Kathryn Clark, Jeffrey Gibson, Gen Guracar, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jean Ray Laury, Aaron McIntosh, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Faith Ringgold, LJ Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Anthony Sonnenberg, Hank Willis Thomas and Anna Von Mertens, Diana Weymar, Estelle Witherspoon.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Deploying quilts from the home front; title: Threads of racial justice; title: Women's hands at work; title: Quilting queerness; title: Dislocation & displacement; title: Lenders to the exhibition; title: Checklist of the exhibition; title: Photo credits.