Wired: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa

$60.00 at de Young Museum.

The long-awaited reprint of the sold-out first edition, Wired is the first book to document the development of wire weaving in African art.  With over 270 magnificent full-color images, Wired showcases the works of the most renowned contemporary weavers. The decorative use of wire has long been a feature of African artwork and, with advancements in telecommunications, a new type of wire—multi-colored, plastic-coated copper wire, referred to as telephone wire— became available. In the 1960s, Zulu night…