500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (500 Series)

Hemachandra, Ray

ISBN 10: 1600590586 / ISBN 13: 9781600590580

Published by Lark Crafts, 2010

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Synopsis:

These 500 wonderful works of art created with fabric and thread form a bountiful international collection of the best in art quilts today. There is something new and engaging to discover on every page one masterpiece after another. Sterling Publishing Co.

Reviews: Today, quilts are finally overcoming their old-fashioned rap. Once perceived as blocklike, follow-the-rules fabric sandwiches, contemporary art quilts—with the emphasis on art—break the ancient code. Bresenhan truly has eyed and chosen 500 of the world’s best, hailing from France and Israel and other countries to the U.S. Each page delivers a different vision of what quilting means, along with the material and manufacturing details. A few examples: a tongue-in-cheek “Cow Pie” depicting, yes, cows meandering in a baked pie. Stark black-and-white whorls in a fingerprint (and so named). Undulating green fabric strips weaving into grass. Bold wisteria in a Tiffany-like stained-glass quilt. Two ready-to-play border collies in a field—just like some museum painting. The quilts here showcase a wide variety of painterly influences, multimedia techniques and materials, and aesthetic periods. Naive, ethnic (e.g., Latino and Native American), abstract, representational, three-dimensional, postmodern, and classics like Chagall and Matisse and Monet. An ooh and aah on every page. --Barbara Jacobs

Bibliographic Details

Title: 500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of ...
Publisher: Lark Crafts
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good