Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck [Paperback]

Sue Pierce (Author), Verna Suit (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1995

In thinking about collective design challenges for quilt artists, Sue Pierce came up with the idea of illustrating a deck of playing cards. She invited fifty-three other quilt artists to participate in the project, and each began creating an interpretative art quilt based on a card from the deck. The resulting collection, inspiring in the scope of its imagination, talent, and skill, premiered at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art and toured the United States under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). This book, the catalog for the exhibition, offers splendid full-color reproductions of the quilts, a brief background on each artist, and an exploration of the techniques used in creating the quilts. Third printing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Pomegranate Communications; 3rd edition (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087654300X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876543009
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #789,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CARDS AND QUILTS, April 24, 2004

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This review is from: Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck (Paperback)

Art quilting, a rather new form of expression in the art world, is vividly introduced in this generously illustrated and well written volume.

By using the universally recognized theme of a deck of cards, the viewer's eye is more easily drawn to the quilt as a work of art rather than the familiar warm cover.

Featuring designs by 54 different artists, the book begins with the traditional quilting method of stitching layers of fabrics together, and branches out into various interpretations and styles.

Each featured artist is profiled and the easy to follow techniques will make all of us want to pick up fabric, needle, and thread.

- Gail Cooke

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Quilt Show Ever, April 18, 2001

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This review is from: Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck (Paperback)

This book represents a museum show of all the cards in a full deck, each "card" an exquisit hand-crafted Art Quilt done by a master quilter from each U.S.state, plus two territories. If you want to be knocked out by genuis quilters, this is the book to get. The show was once at the Corchran Gallery in Washington DC.At one time the authors had a supply of decks of cards duplicating the quilts.