The content in this exhibition was written, researched, and curated by Keely Saar and Ivy Vance.

TEXTILES & POWER

Arens, W. and Ivan Karp, ed,d. Creativity of Power: Cosmology and Action in African Societies. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1989. xii.

Falola, Toyin. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2009.

King-Hammond, Leslie. “Potent Stuff: Memory, Imagination and Meaning in the Aesthetic Life of Amalia Amaki” In Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. 2005.

Lemaire, Gèrard-Georges. “Near and Far–the Orient in the 17th Century” In Orientalism: The Orient in Western Art. Potsdam, Germany: h.f.ullman publishing GmbH, 2000.

Paul, Anne. Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in Ancient Peru. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Rice, Erin. “Patterned Identity: Textiles and Traces of Modernity in Contemporary Nigerian Art” In Identitäten/Identities: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Edited by Marlene Bainczyk-Crescentini, Kathleen Ess, Michael Pleyer, and Monika Pleyer. Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. 2015.

TAPESTRY

Berns, Marla C. “Fulani.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed July 29, 2015, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy2.hampshire.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T030161.

Cassman, Vicki, and Amy Oakland Rodman. “Andean Tapestry: Structure Informs the Surface.” Art Journal 54 (1995): 33–39.

Conklin, William J. “Pucara and Tiahuanaco Tapestry: Time and Style in a Sierra Weaving Tradition.” Nawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology 21 (1983): 1–44.

Decavele, Johan, et al. “Belgium.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy2.hampshire.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T007414pg11.

Hunt, Lucy-Anne, et al. “Coptic art.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy2.hampshire.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T019365.

Kamil, Jill. “Woven History: The Coptic Museum’s tapestries and stonework.” Ancient Egypt 9, no. 4 (2009): 28-32.

Mallory, Sarah W. “Designing and Defining Tapestries: Three Stages of Tapestry Production” In Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Alest and Renaissance Tapestry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Stone, Rebecca R. Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca. London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.

Thomson, Francis. Tapestry: Mirror of History. New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 1980.

COLLECTIVE MEMORY

“About LiMAC » LiMAC.” Accessed August 5, 2015. http://li-mac.org/about-limac/about-limac/.

Braun, Barbara. Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern Art. Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Goldwater, Robert John. Primitivism in Modern Art. Enlarged edition. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1986.

Heckman, Andrea M. Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals. UNM Press, 2003.

Ponzanesi, Sandra. The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Pre-Columbian Collection » LiMAC.” Accessed August 5, 2015. http://li-mac.org/collections/pre-columbian-and-colonial/#tab0.

Rhodes, Colin. Primitivism and Modern Art. World of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Rubin, William Stanley, Museum of Modern Art (New York N.Y.), Detroit Institute of Arts, and Dallas Museum of Art. “Primitivism” In 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern. Museum of Modern Art, 1984.

“Sourcing the Museum – Gallery Guide.” Issuu. Accessed August 5, 2015. http://issuu.com/textile_museum/docs/tm_sourcing_guide.

STILL LIVES

Antonio de Pereda, Still Life with an Ebony Chest, 1652. Oil on canvas, 80 cm. x 94 cm. The State Hermitage Museum – Saint Petersburg.

Bleichmar, Daniela, and Mancall, Peter C., eds. Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Caiger-Smith, Alan, and Kathy Niblett. Alan Caiger-Smith: Tin-Glaze and Smoked Lustre – Pottery by Alan Caiger-Smith and Aldermaston Pottery, 1955-1985. Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, 1985.

Hamann, Byron Ellsworth. “The Mirrors of Las Meninas: Cochineal, Silver, and Clay.” The Art Bulletin 92, no. 1/2 (March 1, 2010): 6–35.

Hochstrasser, Julie. Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age. Yale University Press, 2007.

Jörg, C. J. A., Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Urban Council, Netherlands Consulaat-Generaal (Hong Kong), and Netherlands Dienst Verspreide Rijkscollecties. Interaction in Ceramics: Oriental Porcelain & Delftware : 6 January–15 February 1984, Hong Kong Museum of Art. The Council, 1984.

Meijer, Fred G., and Ashmolean Museum. Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Paintings. Ashmolean Museum, 2003.

Tufts, Eleanor. Luis Meléndez, Eighteenth-Century Master of the Spanish Still Life: With a Catalogue Raisonné. University of Missouri Press, 1985.

ARTWORKS

All the objects from this exhibition are from the collection of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. For images and information on works featured in this exhibition, please visit the Five College Collections Database.

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