ARTH 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Christi Belcourt, Maya Textiles, Sam Durant
10 Apr 2018
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Commodi cation and authenticity: when talking about tradition and innovation - helpful lens. Independence and antonomy on how indigenous culture change. Rug hooking in guatemala: mary anne wise. Illegal to create - act of process to wear and create. Also a form of substantial subsistence and survival: to identify as maya, and to wear was dangerous, statement of importance of tradition, evolved. Content - go from traditional graphic to detailed birds, botany - appropriated into new traditional practices. Conceptual and formal aspects of design, is much more geometric and abstract. Every piece of bre is a dot: see birds picked up, rug but looks like huipils, content transforms but formal sense of design and composition is direct transfer of, rugs were made for sale. Maya women"s rug hooking cooperative was formed in sept 2013. Hand woven huipils: rugs part of mayan culture. Made from coloured sawdust, rice, owers, seeds, vegetables: public art practice, ritual production - made around holy day.
