Main entry:

Saunders, Gill.

Title & Author:

Walls are talking : wallpaper, art and culture / Gill Saunders, Dominique Heyse-Moore, Trevor Keeble ; with an introduction by Christine Woods.

Publication:

Manchester : University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery ; Chicago : KWS Publishers, [2010]

Description:

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Published to coincide with the exhibition Walls are talking: wallpaper, art and culture, 5 February-3 May 2010, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester"--Preliminary page
"Published to coincide with the exhibition Walls are talking: wallpaper, art and culture, 5 February-3 May 2010, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester"--P. facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction. 'It's the Background That Explains the Foreground' / Christine Woods -- How Wallpaper Left Home and Made an Exhibition of Itself / Gill Saunders -- Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper: Pattern, Repetition and Gender / Dominique Heyse-Moore -- Wallpaper, Dust, and 'Muck of That Sort': Themes in the Work of Catherine Bertola / Trevor Keeble.

Summary:

This book is to be published on the occasion of a major touring exhibition of historic and contemporary wallpapers, organized by the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Inherently ephemeral and often overlooked, wallpaper has been seen as the poor relation of the decorative arts, and by the later 20th century wallpaper had become a bit of a joke, a cliché with connotations of kitsch--hardly the most obvious medium for a contemporary avant-garde artist. However, during the past two decades, artists exploring themes of home, memory and identity have created installations with backdrops of specially designed wallpaper which has played a crucial part in the mise en scène. Some have used wallpaper as pictorial polemic by illustrating, for example, warfare or racism, and others have made visually obvious the conflicts in contemporary Western culture, in particular those associated with gender and sexuality. Featuring works by more than 30 international artists, including Sonia Boyce, Thomas Demand, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Abigail Lane, Francesco Simeti, and Niki de Saint Phalle, Walls Are Talking puts their wallpapers in context by showing how they have used historic wallpaper motifs, styles, and methods, and how existing patterns have been adapted and subverted to telling effect.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780984226009 (KWS)
0984226001 (KWS)
9780903261654 (The Whitworth)
0903261650 (The Whitworth)

Subject:

Wallpaper in art Exhibitions.
21.84 interior design and decoration.
Wallpaper in art.
Bildtapete
Kunst
Tapete
Tapeter i konsten.
Wallpaper Themes, motives.
1990-2009

Form/genre:

Ausstellung.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Heyse-Moore, Dominique.
Keeble, Trevor.
Woods, Christine
Whitworth Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266451
Call No.: BIB 198307
Status: Available