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Sheila Hicks - Lignes de Vie. Lifelines

Centre Georges Pompidou 2018 ISBN 9782844268150 Acqn 28283
Pb 19x27cm 168pp 145ills 120col £39.95

A beloved maverick of American art, Hicks has been working at the intersection of art, craft and
architecture for more than 50 years.

With works ranging from tapestry to sculptures, from architectural decoration to installations,
Sheila Hicks is a truly legendary figure of textile and installation art. A Hicks piece may deploy
traditional fibres like cotton, wool and silk alongside, for example, porcupine quills, feathers or
steel fibres; equally unexpected is the often monumental scale of her works, which frequently
respond to the architecture surrounding them.

An American who has lived and worked in Paris since 1964, Hicks has travelled through five
continents, visiting Mexico, France, Morocco, India, Chile, Sweden, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan
and South Africa, to develop relationships with designers, artisans, industrialists, architects,
politicians and cultural leaders in the creation of these fabulous and unique works that blur
boundaries between craft and art in ways that now seem prescient of today’s broader demolition
of such hierarchies.

All facets of the artist’s extraordinary six-decade career are surveyed in this catalogue, published
for her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Through a broad thematic approach, the book
presents around 130 works and previously unpublished material, providing the most
comprehensive overview of her work ever published.

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