Abstract design in American quilts : a biography of an exhibition
Jonathan Holstein (Author), Shelly Zegart, Kentucky Quilt Project (Author), Museum of History and Science (Louisville, Ky) (Host institution)
The exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on 1 July 1971, and quilting has not been the same since. From this universally acknowledged seminal event dates the study of quilting as a serious art form and the tremendously important international cross-fertilization among art historians, textile scholars, and the artist-craftspeople who work in quilts. This important work is a personal statement of Jonathan Holstein's development as a pioneer quilting connoisseur, a guide to the quilts of the Whitney exhibition, and a study of the effects of the consequent explosion of attention to this art form
Print Book, English, 1991
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Kentucky Quilt Project, Louisville, KY, 1991
Exhibition catalogs
230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
9781880584002, 9781880584019, 188058400X, 1880584018
26397019
Includes the catalog of the exhibition held at the Louisville Museum of History and Science, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 1991-Mar. 1992
Includes index