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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787014303321

Autore

Flood Adele

Titolo

Common threads : a discursive text narrating ideas of memory and artistic identity / / by Adele Flood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6894-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

707

Soggetti

Art - Study and teaching - Research

Creative thinking - Study and teaching

Educational evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Common Threads explores ideas of artistic identity and memory contained within the narrated stories of ten textile artists. It reveals how individuals bring a sense of linearity to fragments of memory and create a cohesive sense of self through telling their life's story. By employing a systems model, the author constructs new ideas of interrogating identity and art practice. The model, ""Constructing Personal Narratives"", brings into focus the hermeneutic circle of learning, and identifies t...