Sul filo della lana

With texts by Philippe Daverio, Claudio Strinati, Benedetta Barzini, Lucia Portoghesi, Nicola Spinosa, Alessandro Greggio, Elena Agudio, Alessandro Giovanardi, Antonio Paolucci, Umberto Zampini, Luca Emilio Brancati, Laura Laurencich Minelli, Davide Domenici, Lanfredo Castelletti, Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Vachino, Marco Neiretti, Marco Trisciuoglio, and Studio Azzurro.

From Ariadne's thread to Andy Warhol's ball of wool, this is the century's old history of wool in art and industry, told for the first time in a publication entirely dedicated to wool and the culture and traditions associated with it.
It is a passionate journey across more than three hundred works of art from ancient times to the present day; the "thread" that is so interwoven with the history of humanity that it has become legend and also one of the most recurrent symbolic elements since ancient times.
Some of the fascinating works examined include: the earliest evidence of the existence of fabric, dating back 25,000 years; one of the best known sculptures from antiquity, the bronze ram from the Archaeological Museum of Palermo; the famous marble Ariadne belonging to the Medici and the works of Giorgio de Chirico inspired by it; Coptic fabrics; oriental rugs; handmade woollen products of Andean people; Flemish tapestries from the sixteenth century; Kounellis Arcadic mythological tales; felt pieces by Beuys; Boetti kilims; the works of Warhol; and video artists from Studio Azzurro.
This captivating history demonstrates the creative interweaving of history, legend and tradition from pre-history to the present day and explores the symbolic and mythological meanings associated with wool throughout the ages.