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...since the late Middle Ages has tapestry enjoyed such a surge of creativity. All over Europe looms are clacking busily as tapissiers. working elbow to elbow, ply the warp with bobbin and thread. In the ancient ateliers of Aubusson. 235 miles south of Paris, every loom is filled with work in progress; Gobelin in Paris, once the royal tapestry house for the kings of France but more recently a manufacturer of furniture, has put weavers back to work on modern tapestries designed by some of France's foremost artists. And in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first tapestry biennial exposition, sponsored...
...father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him off without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes. At one point, Pupe manages to wriggle out of these clothes with one hand while telephoning with the other in what is surely one of the more provocative stripteases to be recorded on film. The scene proves...
...Nazis, but he does not remember them simply because they burned his studio or because he lost his paratrooper son in action. The invaders had an insatiable greed for French tapestries, and when they had exhausted the reserves of traditional hangings in the ancient tapestry-weaving center of Aubusson, 235 miles south of Paris, the local weavers turned for new designs to a small group of former Paris artists turned Resistance fighters who were hiding in the town. Under the Nazis' noses, Lurçat wove a great crowing cock standing on a blazing ball of sun, which...
Before & After. Aubusson has had hand weavers for at least 500 years. But the mechanical looms of the 19th century reduced them to facile copiers, and World War I, followed by the Depression, all but finished off the industry. Today, the people of Aubusson speak almost out of habit of the time "before Lurçat" and "after Lurçat." Last week, as evidence of what Lurçat has done for the village, Aubusson had on view the most lavish display of local tapestries ever assembled: 550 brilliantly rich pieces in the full range of designs from representational...
Walls That Cry. Not only France but Germany, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries are becoming customers of Aubusson. The U.S., which until last year imposed a 60% duty on modern tapestries, has not yet begun to buy in quantity. Last month a group of U.S. artists, including Stuart Davis, Ben Shahn and Theodores Stamos, formed the Society of American Tapestry Designers in the hope of enticing other Americans to take their place beside the Europeans. Lurçat and his colleagues do not worry about competition: not only are tapestries more in demand; they are also getting bigger...