Unconventional & unexpected
Subtitle: American quilts below the radar 1950-2000
By: Roderick Kiracofe
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781617691232
Subjects: Catalogs; Art collections; Quilts; Private collections; History
Other titles: American quilts below the radar 1950-2000
Description: Presents 150 quilts from the author's collection which were made during the second half of the twentieth century by anonymous quilters in the United States, along with a series of essays on quilt making as an art form.
Notes: "STC Craft / A Melanie Falick book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and filmography.
Table of contents: title: Never seen a blanket / Natalie Chanin; title: In dialogue with an anonymous quilt / Amelia Peck; title: A Texas quiltmaker's life: an interview with Sherry Ann Byrd / Roderick Kiracofe & Sherry Ann Byrd; title: Unconventional wisdom: the myths and quilts that came before / Janneken Smucker; title: A brief history of quilts in contemporary art / Elissa Auther; title: From under the bedcovers: a culture curator's perspective / Ulysses Grant Dietz; title: Quilts are quilts / Allison Smith; title: The joyous anarchy of color and pattern / Kaffe Fassett; title: The beauty of making do / Denyse Schmidt; title: This picture is not a family heirloom / Abner Nolan.