Needlepoint for Men : Craft and Masculinity in Postwar America
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 76465346
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/17496772.2015.1099247
- Title of journal
- Journal of Modern Craft
- Article number
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- First page
- 301
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1749-6772
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://ulster.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/REF2021/EUgDTCN2YepMgN_BuAVRa5MBRpxopzm3ZEF9q6sIGKlAFA?e=nTOpKo
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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D - Art, Conflict & Society
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This 11,000-word article in the peer-reviewed The Journal of Modern Craft was by invitation in 2015. The article’s originality and significance lies in it was the first in the journal’s history to address the role of men in the production of textiles as fabricators rather than artists and designers. The article takes as a case study postwar American modernism, specifically the writings of the influential critic Clement Greenberg.
The article offered insight into a previously unresearched context of Greenbergian modernism. As well as framing the debates in contemporary mid-century discussions of masculinity, and locating these in the wider framework of more recent masculinity studies and queer theory, it further drew on previously unknown archive material in the collection of the Beinecke Library, Yale University. The article was considered especially innovative in the new field of “modern craft” in that it “discovered a rich story about craft where none had looked before” (The Journal of Modern Craft, vol. 10, no.1, March 2018, p. 15).
The article’s significance and impact are evidenced by its wide citation in books on modernism and textile history (see for example, The Modern Embroidery Movement, Bloomsbury, 2017; and Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York, Yale, 2019). The article forms an early stage in research for the monograph, Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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