VISUAL CULTURE

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Special issue on String edited by Pennina Barnett and Claire Pajaczkowska vol. 5, no. 2, July 2007, 128pp, illus, ISBN 9781845206185

This special issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture focuses on String, literally and metaphorically, for the emotions it evokes and the ideas it sets in motion. Just as anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss famously noted that myths are ‘good to think with’ – by which he meant that it is in the patterns of the story, and the relationships between characters, actions and objects that we find a ‘map’ of a world – so it is useful to think about string in both a functional and symbolic way.

About the authors

Pennina Barnett, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Claire Pajaczkowska, Middlesex University.

Contents

Introduction – Pennina Barnett and Claire Pajaczkowska

Portfolio

Shadowfall 1,2,3,4 – Caroline Broadhead

The String in Art and Science: Rediscovering the Material Mind – Susanne Küchler

“Thread of Attachment”: – Claire Pajaczkowska

The Fiber Game – Glenn Adamson

String Theory – Paul Howe

Playing with Haddon’s String Figures – Dinah Eastop

Wrapt with String – Louise Hamby

String, Space and Surface in the Photography of Vik Muniz – Sandra Plummer