Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting examines the work of a diverse group of contemporary artists who have reformed knitting and lacemaking by experimenting with innovative techniques and materials. The works, which were largely created for an exhibition
Pricked takes the pulse of the international embroidery as practiced today. It is not by any measure an exhibition about embroidery, but rather an exhitition of contemporary art made by artists that use embroidery as a medium to communcate their ideas and visions." ... "Language & art; Process & materials. The pleasure of making and the communication of meaning is vital in the work of each artist in Pricked: extreme embroidery. These are artists that have chosen embroidery as the most direct way to bring their artistic visions to life. A return to materiality in art practice is indicated by the work presented by each artist,; it also documents a shift in the way art functions in our lives. These works suggest that the real can trump the virtual, that low-tech activities can be as impressive as high-tech systems, that personal visions are as valid as generic pronoucements, and that process and materials carry their own meaning in contemporary art." -- p. 10 & 97.
Foreword Holly Hotchner -- Acknowledgments -- Talking dirty : out of the dust and ashes David Revere McFadden -- Artist works -- Artist statements and biographies : Kim Abeles ; Catherine Bertola ; Margaret Boozer ; Cai Guo-Qiang ; James Croak ; Cui Fei ; Phoebe Cummings ; Jim Denevan ; Jim Dingilian ; Igor Eškinja ; Linda Florence ; Glithero ; Andy Goldsworthy ; Paul Hazelton ; Maskull Lasserre ; Stephen Livingstone ; Sasha Meret ; Vik Muniz ; Alexandre Orion ; Julie Parker ; Antonio Riello ; Lee Stoetzel ; Su Zhiguang ; Elvira Wersche ; Zhang Huan biographies by Thea Giovannini-Torelli -- Photography credits.
This publication presents a selection of wood-based works from the collection of Robert Bohlen, one of the finest and most thorough collectors of wood art. The artistic progress of the medium is analyzed by a wide array of essays.
OTHERWORLDY: Optical Delusions and Small Realities illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale, hand-built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. The book features contemporary work by approximately 35 preeminent visual artists who have generated renewed interest in this art form: a diverse group of international practitioners, ranging from sculptors and painters to photographers and videographers. This fully illustrated catalogue will also feature artist biographies and artist statements, and include a curatorial essay by exhibition curator David Revere McFadden that traces the history of dioramas and visual illusions in the historyof the visual arts to Louis Daguerre's innovative dioramas of the early 1800s and provides an interpretive overview of work by all of the featured artists.
This unique treasury presents 279 full-color illustrations of miniature chairs--made of such materials as ticket stubs, gum wrappers, playing cards, and buttons. These emblems of miniature design reveal an exuberance and creativity bound to delight readers of all sizes.
Minkowitz explores the human form, drawing the viewer into her psychologically charged sculptures. She has turned crochet into a complex contemporary art form.
This publication presents a selection of wood-based works from the collection of Robert Bohlen, one of the finest and most thorough collectors of wood art. The artistic progress of the medium is analyzed by a wide array of essays.
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