Abstract design in American quilts
Subtitle: a biography of an exhibition
By: Jonathan Holstein ; forword by Shelly Zegart.
Contributors: Kentucky Quilt Project.; Museum of History and Science (Louisville, Ky.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kentucky Quilt Project
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Quilts -- United States -- Exhibitions; Decoration and ornament -- United States -- Exhibitions; Art, Abstract -- United States -- Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes the catalog of the exhibition held at the Louisville Museum of History and Science, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 1991-Mar. 1992.
Includes index.