Geografien Des Textilen - (Edition Angewandte) by Barbara Putz-Plecko (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Worlds of textiles artistically conveyed

This publication presents and documents 26 years of artistic teaching and research at the Textiles Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It provides insight into the diversity of cultural techniques and fields of textile production, into the spaces of reflection in the context of teaching art and into the diversity of practices that artists contribute as teachers.

The contributions show how artistic working methods in an educational context inspire and rethink didactic practices. The focus is on the following questions: How can teaching "from art" be understood, and what potential does teaching "from art" open up for educational processes? These potentials can be seen from best-practice examples.

• Surprising insights into the diversity, beauty, and importance of textiles
• Current and exceptional examples of artistic research on textiles
• Elaborately designed book; published alongside Heterotopien des Künstlerischen. Lehren als künstlerische Praxis

About the Author

Barbara Putz-Plecko, artist, educator; former head of the Textiles Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna