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This high-powered mix for all who make and appreciate contemporary
art quilting is the second installment of the creativity-inspiring
series Exploring Art Quilts with SAQA, which blends
book-and-journal format with over 300 photos revealing today's
latest works and designs. It also serves as a long-term creative
reference. Be inspired by interviews, gorgeous art quilt photos,
and current creations by members of Studio Art Quilt Associates,
Inc. (SAQA), the renowned international organization dedicated to
promoting the art quilt. Meet 12 artists living around the world,
including stories on their beginnings as art quilters. Peer at
every detail in photos from five of SAQA's recent exhibitions,
showing the range of content being produced today. A series of
articles examine art being made in various locales: Australia &
New Zealand, Norway, and South Africa are included in this volume.
Finally, learn from the work of SAQA's Juried Artist members in
seven themed image galleries highlighting the range and complexity
of their art.
The first major publication to explore the prolific career of Kaffe
Fassett, one of the most recognized names in contemporary craft and
design Kaffe Fassett (b. 1937) is one of the most recognized names
in contemporary craft and design with work encompassing knitting,
needlepoint, quilting, textile design, mosaic, painting, and
drawing. Fassett's sense of color and pattern has inspired makers
around the world; his early successes include knitwear designs for
fashion designers such as Bill Gibb and Missoni, and in more recent
years he has collaborated with the luxury fashion house Coach. His
inimitable eye can translate the most everyday of details into the
basis for one of his colorful, sophisticated, maximalist designs.
This book explores Fassett's career and work in context for the
first time, highlighting and widening the scope of his output over
more than five decades. Drawing on original artworks, photographs,
and archival material, it illuminates the work of this distinctive,
influential artist and designer. Essays from design and fashion
historians sit alongside striking visual material and insightful
interviews with Fassett that provide additional context about this
prolific artist. Published in association with the Fashion and
Textile Museum Exhibition Schedule: Fashion and Textile Museum,
London (September 23, 2022-March 12, 2023) Dovecot Studios,
Edinburgh (March 31-July 8, 2023) Millesgarden Museum, Sweden
(September 2023-February 2024)
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has
remarked, "Much of the social history of early America has been
lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles
rather than pens." This book, part of the multivolume series of the
International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of
that lost history and shows us some of America's treasured material
culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. "American Quilts
in the Modern Age, 1870-1940" examines the period's quilts from
both an artistic and a historical perspective. From pieced block to
Crazy style to Colonial Revival examples, as well as one-of-a-kind
creations, the full array of style and design appears in this book
covering seven decades of quiltmaking. The contributing authors
provide critical information regarding the modern and anti-modern
tensions that persisted throughout this era of America's coming of
age, from the Civil War to World War II. They also address the
textile technology and cultural context of the times in which the
quilts were created, with an eye to the role that industrialization
and modernization played in the evolution of techniques, materials,
and designs. With full-color photographs of over 587 quilts,
"American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940" offers a new visual
and tactile understanding of American culture and society, bridging
the transition from traditional folk culture to the age of mass
production and consumption.
Sacred Stitches accompanies an exhibition that will assemble
together for the first time fragments of opulent and unique
ecclesiastical textiles drawn from the stored collections at
Waddesdon Manor, the astonishing Renaissance-style chateau that is
one of the rare survivors of the splendor of the 'gout Rothschild'.
Dating from c. 1400 to the late 1700s, the textiles were acquired
by several members of the Rothschild family, the greatest
collectors of the 19th century, who sought the highest quality of
workmanship with a keen sense of historical importance. The
textiles were prized for their technical and artistic brilliance.
Parts of altar frontals, vestments and other church furnishings,
they survive as fragments, cushions, banners, hangings and
furniture upholstery, as their original purposes were altered to
suit tastes and interior styles of the late 1800s. Baron Ferdinand
de Rothschild used them in the Bachelors' Wing at Waddesdon, the
first part of the house to be completed in 1880. His sister, Alice,
also had an eye for the finest ecclesiastical embroideries,
displayed as decorative hangings in her own house nearby. A
passionate collector of costume and textiles, Ferdinand and Alice's
niece, Baroness Edmond de Rothschild, shared their interest and
added to the collection.
Quilts and Color presents more than sixty graphically bold American
quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and
largest collections of quilts in the world. These collectors
recognized that quilt makers often grappled with the same concerns
as many modern artists. Influenced by twentieth-century art
developments such as Abstraction, Op Art and the Colour Field
movement, Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy were among the first to
appreciate quilts as more than simply decorative bedcovers, women's
fancy work, or symbols of a rustic past. Reproduced brilliantly and
arranged by ideas based in colour theory - Vibrations, Mixtures,
Gradation Harmonies, Contrasts, Variations, Optical Illusions and
Singular Visions - each quilt in this book is celebrated as a
unique work of art. The accompanying text also sheds light on the
social and cultural history of the quilts as well as the practices
and aspirations of their mostly anonymous makers, who created such
works of enduring beauty and arresting visual impact.
ARACHNE is an almanac of clothing, fashion, lifestyle, popular
culture, music and art in Vienna. It explores happenings in the
city - including the work of the fashion design class at the
University of Applied Arts - and beyond, offering a unique mix of
fashion editorials, illustrations, essays, art, short stories,
reviews and interviews. The publication owes its name to the
ancient Greek myth of Arachne, a weaver so talented that she
challenged Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving
contest. Athena punished Arachne for her hubris by turning her into
a spider.
Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing.
Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn
on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as
Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters
such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous
materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making
textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices,
rather than parallel modes. This beautifully illustrated book
brings together for the first time the language and materiality of
textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making.
Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Helene Cixous
and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and
Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine
Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the
material behaviours and philosophical language of folding,
shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor
demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven
together.
An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and
quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most
utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a
formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark
book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendor and craft of
quilts with more than 300 superb color images and details.
Fascinating essays by two noted scholars trace the evolution of
quilting styles and trends as they relate to the social, political,
and economic issues of their time. The collection includes quilts
made by diverse religious and cultural groups over 400 years and
across continents, from the Mediterranean, England, France,
America, and Polynesia. The earliest quilts were made in India and
the Mediterranean for export to the west and date to the late 16th
century. Examples from 18th- to 20th-century America, many made by
Amish and African-American quilters, reflect the multicultural
nature of American society and include boldly colored and patterned
worsteds and brilliant pieced and appliqued works of art. Grand in
scope and handsomely produced, Four Centuries of Quilts: The
Colonial Williamsburg Collection is sure to be one of the most
useful and beloved references on quilts and quilting for years to
come. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Art Museums of Colonial
Williamsburg (06/07/14-May 2016)
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