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Inspirations, Visions, and Traditions in Fiber Arts is a glance into a modern-day group of African American quilters and dollmakers who have joined together to create and enjoy Fiber Arts. This collection of beautiful quilts and dolls will lead you to turn page after page as you share the vision these artists have brought to fruition. Their personal stories will enable you to understand their fiery passion for the art. Because local guilds did not seem to understand the Black perspective, The African American Quilt and Doll Guild became a safe place for artists to freely express themselves and incorporate the history and stories stored in the hearts of African American fiber artists. They found the freedom to incorporate a different perspective of color, design and African Art in quilts. They have also used that same love of color to create Black cloth dolls that reflect the Black experiences in their lives and those of their families.The African American Quilt and Doll Guild and its' Storyteller members, honor Africans and African Americans by telling the history through quilts and dolls. The artistic images will grab your attention and a knowing smile will grace your lips when you sit back, relax and enjoy the craftsmanship of the artists.
Author : Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
ISBN : 9780876545980
Genre : Art
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The book explores the use and meaning of the kimono in America and traces the transformation of the garment from its ethnic origins, through its many appearances in fine art, costume, and high fashion, to its role in the contemporary Art-to-Wear Movement. It explores the American use of the kimono as a garment, as a symbol, and as an art form.
Author : Janis Jefferies
ISBN : 9781474275798
Genre : Business & Economics
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In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies. The handbook offers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles' relationships to history, memory, place, and social and technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and contemporary textile art practice. This illustrated volume will be essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion, feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history. Cover image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014. Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC. Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.
Author : Stephanie Schrader
ISBN : 9781606065525
Genre : Art
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This sumptuously illustrated volume examines the impact of Indian art and culture on Rembrandt (1606–1669) in the late 1650s. By pairing Rembrandt’s twenty-two extant drawings of Shah Jahan, Jahangir, Dara Shikoh, and other Mughal courtiers with Mughal paintings of similar compositions, the book critiques the prevailing notion that Rembrandt “brought life” to the static Mughal art. Written by scholars of both Dutch and Indian art, the essays in this volume instead demonstrate how Rembrandt’s contact with Mughal painting inspired him to draw in an entirely new, refined style on Asian paper—an approach that was shaped by the Dutch trade in Asia and prompted by the curiosity of a foreign culture. Seen in this light, Rembrandt’s engagement with India enriches our understanding of collecting in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the Dutch global economy, and Rembrandt’s artistic self-fashioning. A close examination of the Mughal imperial workshop provides new insights into how Indian paintings came to Europe as well as how Dutch prints were incorporated into Mughal compositions.
Author : Julia B. Rosenbaum
ISBN : 0801444705
Genre : Art
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The interplay between art objects and the shaping of loyalties and identities in a formative phase of American culture is explored in this volume that offers a new interpretation of turn-of-the-century American art and its vision of the distinctive New England landscape and identity.
Author : Archie Hearne III
ISBN : 1607251302
Genre : Art
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Collaborations: Two Decades ofExcellence in African American Art, complete with color reproductions of the artwork of 57 artists who have exhibited in either solo or group exhibitions at Hearne Fine Art, is a vibrant testimonial to the longevity and commitment to excellence that has come to be the hallmark of this gallery. Accompanying the images are brief profiles of the artists as well as their respective statements. Also included are incisive textual contributions from noted appraiser and historian, Halima Taha, PhD and artist Dianne Smith.
Author : Tina Williams Brewer
ISBN : PSU:000065691564
Genre : African American quiltmakers
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In the Air tells stories of how the lives of Western Pennsylvanians are affected by the quality of the air that they breathe. Photographers, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson and Annie O'Neill, have documented some of the people and places that illustrate the issues associated with air quality. The images are accompanied by essays by Reid Frazier that expand on the social and environmental context to the visual work. The environmental, social and economic effects of air quality can hardly be overestimated, but are often hard to visualize. Comprised of these five voices, with distinct approaches and aesthetics, the team has gathered materials that describe the variety of issues at the heart of the subject, highlighting the relationship between the health of the community and the health of its environment.
Author : Emma I. Hansen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123360617
Genre : Art
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Illustrates the past and present of the Plains peoples in over 250 full-color images, from traditional feather bonnets to contemporary paintings and sculptures and contributions by Native American scholars.
In honour of C&T Publishing's 20th anniversary, the world's best quilt designers, fibre artists and quilting teachers, all C&T authors, have designed quilt blocks for you, plus share their favourite tips and stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry.
“An overview of current trends in the field [with]...profiles of prominent fiber artists, with generous samples of their work...a good choice.”—Library Journal. “Lavishly photo-graphed...I defy any devotee of great textiles and powerful design not to find something in these pages they’d be thrilled to wear.”—Threads. “Inspirational...jam-packed with ideas, tips, and techniques....Get a copy and start the creative juices flowing.”—Vogue Patterns.
