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    Book -  Amish: The Art of the Quilt Book

    Book - Amish: The Art of the Quilt Book

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    Amish: The Art of the Quilt 

    We have a limited supply of brand new copies of this out of print Art book. Created for the exhibit "AMISH: The Art of The Quilt" at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum in 1990, it was co-authored by Robert Hughes and Julie Silber, curator of the Esprit Quit Collection.   

    The coffee table-size, hard cover book features stunning color photos of the finest Lancaster County PA quilts, and a brilliant essay by renowned art critic, Robert Hughes.  Comes with a protective sleeve.

    Editorial Review, From Publishers Weekly:
    Deep, vibrant tones of plum, burgundy, teal and hunter green in patterns as starkly simple as Bars or as sprightly as Sunshine and Shadow sing forth from the 82 quilts, selected from San Francisco's Esprit Quilt Collection, pictured on these large-format pages. Designed and stitched by Pennsylvania Amish women between 1870 and 1950, the quilts exemplify the values in a religious culture that, as art critic Hughes notes in the introduction, "puts tremendous premium on stable order and material adequacy." Pieced from unpatterned cloth and arranged in geometric patterns, the quilts are vivid and modern in effect, demonstrating, in Hughes's view, "how absurd the once jealously guarded hierarchical distinctions between 'folk' and 'high' art can be." Silber, curator of the collection, provides brief, informative commentaries. Most eloquent, however, are the quilts themselves.


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    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; First Edition (September 29, 1990)
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 207 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394587812
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394587813
    • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.9 pounds
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.5 x 1.5 x 14.75 inches


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