Slit Tapestry

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Slit tapestry is a tapestry weave where the weft threads turn back, creating slits in the direction of the warp threads.

Tapestry Join

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The structural connection between adjacent color areas in tapestry weave accomplished by dovetailing or interlocking.

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Throughout the twenty years of his artistic career from 1977 to 1997, Martin Kippenberger refused to adopt a specific style or medium. However, the intertwining of high art with the issues and scenes of mass- and sub-cultures runs throughout his varied output, as does humor–whether through incisive social, cultural, and political criticism, or through the wordplay of the titles of his works. 

Henry Moore: A Modernist's "Primitivism"

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following is a 2001 essay by Alan Wilkinson published in Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century. While the aesthetics of various cultures from the Americas, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Africa had significant influences on the development of modernist abstraction, the modernist use of the term "primitive art" to refer collectively to w

1983.W.1928.a-b Leg ornaments or shin guards (Peru, Wari)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
These woven cane objects appear to have served as a pair of leg ornaments or shin guards, likely for a male warrior or official. The canes are tightly woven together in a polychrome concentric diamond pattern. The undecorated posterior has a cotton plain-weave lining that is stuffed with camelid hair. The latter provided padding behind the protective or decorative cane frame. Remains of straps at the edges likely served as ties around the leg.

1989.W.2403 Four-cornered mantle (Peru, Wari)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This large mantle is composed of two plain weave cotton segments with decorated corners. The corners along one side panel bear simple concentric diamonds created by supplemental red fibers. Along the other side, the corners are elaborated through a figurative block pattern of six distinct color pairs set in diagonal rows. The block figures are generally quadrupedal (with four legs), with long mouths and marked tails.

1976.W.2061 Four-cornered hat (Peru, Wari)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The four-cornered hat was a popular high-status headdress in the south-central and southern Andean highlands among Huari (Wari) and Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) elites. The finest Tiahuanaco examples are of continuous tapestry weave, while the Huari examples reflect separate weaving of the band and top. The piling of supplemental fibers through lark’s head knots is common to Huari hats.

1976.W.2056 Four-cornered hat (Peru, Wari)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The four-cornered hat was a popular high-status headdress in the south-central and southern Andean highlands among Huari (Wari) and Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) elites. The finest Tiahuanaco examples are of continuous tapestry weave, while the Huari examples reflect separate weaving of the band and top. The piling of supplemental fibers through lark’s head knots is common to Huari hats.

1976.W.2014 Four-cornered hat (Peru, Wari)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The four-cornered hat was a popular high-status headdress in the south-central and southern Andean highlands among Huari (Wari) and Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) elites. The finest Tiahuanaco examples are of continuous tapestry weave, while the Huari examples reflect separate weaving of the band and top. The piling of supplemental fibers through lark’s head knots is common to Huari hats.