The Art Quilt [Hardcover]

Robert Shaw (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Beaux Arts Editions (November 1997)
• ISBN-10: 0883633256
• ISBN-13: 978-0883633250
• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 10.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Shaw is a gifted communicator who lectures, writes, curates, and consults on many aspects of American folk arts and crafts. His many critically acclaimed books include American Quilts: The Democratic Art, Hand Made, Hand Played: The Art and Craft of Contemporary Guitars, The Art Quilt, America's Traditional Crafts, and American Baskets. He has curated exhibitions at major museums and expositions in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival.; contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogs; written articles for The Magazine Antiques, Early American Life, Sports Afield, Fiber Arts, and other periodicals; and served as a consultant to museums, private collectors, and Sotheby's auction house. His web sites are www.roberteshaw.com and www.artofthequilt.com.

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for needlecraft students, quilters & collectors., May 3, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art Quilt (Hardcover)

Robert Shaw draws upon his impressive expertise to celebrate the traditional bed quilt as a needlecraft art form that is a creative, emotional, example of "form following function". His insightful text traces the transformation of the quilt from bed cover to display piece, the quilter from homemaker to academically trained artist, the workshop from kitchen to studio, and the materials from simple to complex. The Art Quilt is superb survey of an art form grounded in tradition and, at the same time, committed to originality and innovation. The works of such superb contemporary quilters as Michael James, Yvonne Porcella, Julia Pfaff, Nancy Crow, and more than two hundred others, serve to illustrate the quilt as art -- and the art of the quilt. The Art Quilt is enhanced with 300 full-color reproductions and numerous insightful sidebars of important technical processes and leaders int he art quilt field. The Art Quilt is highly recommended reading for needlecraft students, quilters, collectors, and popular culture enthusiasts.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendously inspiring - gorgeous photography, December 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Art Quilt (Hardcover)

I'm a weekend quilter - and love working with rich color. This is not only a coffee-table beautiful book but it inspires creative ideas far beyond normal quilting. You don't have to be a quilter to enjoy - the art is wonderful. And if you do quilt, this will inspire you to all sorts of radically new ideas.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for anyone interested in art quilts., November 24, 1998

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This review is from: The Art Quilt (Hardcover)

This book is carefully researched, very well catergorized into sections of color, embellishment, pictorial quilts, etc. Photographs of quilts are good and copy is well presented. Robert Hughes has covered the world of the art quilt in depth. Missed a few of the very early art quilters, e.g. Maria McCormick-Snyder but all in all the best I have seen.