It was great to welcome back Kay Wells today, talking about her new book Weaving Modernism:
Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York - it began life as an art history PhD here. She did a terrific job, not just explaining why tapestry was so important at this time, but why it's been so neglected, arguing that to focus on it would have been to have disrupted the dominant post-modernist narrative about the salient features of modernism: in other words, she's written both the history of an episode in this particular medium, and a revisionist account of art historiography. It's a terrific book. When she was writing it I, of course, kept trying to pull her back in time to the Omega workshops, and for that matter to Burne-Jones: she managed to resist the lure of the latter, at least ...
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