About this title: Abstraction and colour. Those are the buzzwords designating the salient charactistics of Amish quilts, which remind anyone looking at them of modern painting, be it Josef Albers, Barnett Newman or Frank Stella. Diamonds and bars - lozenges, squares, elongated rectangles - fiery red, vivid green, smokey blue, purple...With their stringent geometry, broad colour fields and astringent composition, Amish quilts are startlingly close to Concrete art, Hard-Edge painting and Minimalism. However, the modern appearance of these patchwork quilts stemmed from the design intention of an 18th-century ...
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Your search:Books»Diamonds and Bars: Die Kunst de Amischen/The Art of the Amish People, Quilts Der Sammlung Schlumberger/The Schlumberger Quilt-Collection(11 available copies)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arnoldsche
Date Published: 2007-07-15
ISBN-13:9783897902626ISBN:3897902621
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GMBH
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9783897902626ISBN:3897902621
Description: New. 9783897902626. Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English and German. 192 pp. With 158 col. Ills. 32 x 30 cm. read more
Edition: Bilingual
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9783897902626ISBN:3897902621
Description: Abstraction and colour. Those are the buzzwords designating the salient charactistics of Amish quilts, which remind anyone looking at them of modern painting, be it Josef Albers, Barnett Newman or Frank Stella. Diamonds and bars-lozenges, squares, ... read more
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