Lynne Cooke, editor of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
"the history of twentieth-century art cannot be told apart from its intersection with thread and fiber, cloth and clothing"
her book's purview "stretches from Sophie Tauber-Arp's glittering geometric beadwork (1918) to Analia Saban's glittering circuit-board Copper Tapestry (2020), with space for Agnes Martin's ascetic sublime, Jeffrey Gibson's eloquent exess, the numinous painted grids of Jack Whitten, and the Arte Povera tangles of Marisa Merz"