The fine art of crochet
Subtitle: innovative works from 20 contemporary artists
By: Gwen Blakley Kinsler
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781481731867
Subjects: Crocheting; Textile crafts; Art objects; Needleworkers
Description: "Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities, using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance and mixed media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage, to explore gender codes and to show the primal creative expression represented by crochet. In The Fine Art of Crochet, Gwen Blakley Kinsler looks at the art crochet movement from 1915 onward to the Crochet Revolution of the 1960s by profiling twenty of the most innovative practitioners working today. ... The works featured in this book represent the diverse styles, unusual shapes, and exquisite textures that characterize crocheted art today"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 104).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Crochet beginnings ; Crochet revolution ; Crochet evolution ; The era of collaboration; title: The artists. Arline Fisch ; Leslie Pontz ; Georgina Valverde ; Pate Conaway ; Carol Hummel ; Renie Breskin Adams ; Donna Lish ; Dale Roberts ; Nathan Vincent ; Andrea Uravitch ; Kathleen Holmes ; Tracy Krumm ; Donna Rosenthal ; Karen Searle ; Soonran Youn ; Jerry Bleem ; Jo Hamilton ; Yvette Kaiser Smith ; Bonnie Meltzer ; Dr. Carol Ventura; title: References.