著者

高橋 律子 TAKAHASHI Ritsuko

出版者

金沢大学大学院人間社会環境研究科

雑誌

人間社会環境研究 = Human and socio-environmental studies (ISSN:24360627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.41, pp.33-47, 2021-03-31

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This cultural sociological study analyzes the meaning of "sewing" as a technique of expression in contemporary art from a gendered perspective. Sewing has been regarded as a technique mainly used by women. This study explored the relationship between gender bias and femininity, rather than looking at sewing. There are three types of techniques: three-dimensional soft sculpture, two-dimensional embroidery, and collage, which is a patchwork-like technique of sewing cloth to cloth. As a result of its incorporation into the context of sculpture, soft sculpture was often created by male artists, while embroidery tended to be a female habitus and was often created by female artists or with gender considerations in mind. The analysis of cloth as a "collage" is an issue for future work in terms of its relevance to clothing and the affinity of the collage technique with women, which is not limited to cloth. In addition, as the concept represented by sewing, this study highlighted four important themes as art that confronts contemporary society: gender, community/communication, time and memory, and life and death. By examining contemporary art with the sewing along the vertical axis, I was able to see the sawing as a technique that women were able to acquire as a predominantly women's work or hobby as well as from the perspective of the socially vulnerable. Sewing is highly flexible and has both two- and three-dimensional qualities. It is a primitive technique that is close to our daily life, and the technique itself contains various messages. It seems to me that the failure to look at sewing as a handicraft objectively has been a matter of criticism, not for the creator. While accepting the fact that it was a woman's handicraft and hobby, I feel the need to explore more of its potential as an art technique.