Felt/Filz: Art, Crafts and Design/Kunst, Kunsthandwerk und Design

Felt is fashioanble. Since the 1980s, not only couturiers and designers, but artists have become more interested in felt. This publication, for the very first time, provides a thrilling survey of current creative activities which may be based equally on Joseph Beuys as on ethnological It is felt as a medium, or frequently the felting process itself, which dominates the artistic message of many works. Artists such as Inge Evers or Claudia Merx, for instance, develop their image directly from felting techniques. Others may be more interested in the sculptural potential of felt or explore its material characteristics like Erich Koster, who turns fekt into stiff material, from which he saws 'technoid' structures, or Ulrike Hau, who makes weapon-shaped felt objects. There are also artists who are attracted by felt's resemblance to skin and thus its correctedness with the body, for example Celio Braga,w ho considers the body in terms of its vulnerability and frailty. Together with such artistic interpret