After many years he returned to the university where he once studied - the Academy of Fine Arts in £ód¼ - this time as an academic teacher. In 2007, he won the first prize at the 12th International Tapestry Triennale. W³odzimierz Cygan, who wants to be - for his students - a practitioner and not only a demanding chatterbox, talks about his professional and artistic work. more
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Culture Industries|
Beautiful Language
of Textiles
Maciej Mazerant
Adriana B³aszczyk-Zych is an artist from £ód¼ who has had international artistic and pedagogical achievements. She tells us about her work in Mexico, and about the future for artists dealing with textiles. more
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Analysis
Like other branches of art, artistic textiles constitute an important part of culture industries. As proof, one could take the number of people making them. After typing "artistic textiles" in Google, we find dozens of artists working in this realm. From the very beginning of its existence, a textile occupied an in-between place: being functional, it played a decorative, symbolic or, finally, especially in the 20th century, artistic role.
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