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Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. 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Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—\u003cem\u003eFray\u003c\/em\u003e explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClosely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high\/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. 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