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- Condition
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- Book Title
- Creation Story : Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
- Publication Name
- Creation Story
- Title
- Creation Story
- Subtitle
- Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
- Contributor
- Mark W. Scala (Edited by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780826518804
- ISBN
- 9780826518804
- Publisher
- Frist Center for T.H.E. V/SUAL Arts
- Genre
- Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Social Science
- Release Date
- 30/05/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 12.6in
- Item Width
- 11.7in
- Item Weight
- 48 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Quilts & Quilting, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Creation Story explores parallels and intersections in the works of Dial and his fellow Alabamians, the remarkable quilters of Gee's Bend. In the tradition of African American cemetery constructions and yard art, these artists harness the tactile properties and symbolic associations of cast-off materials in creating an art of profound beauty and evocative power. Produced against a backdrop of poverty and racism, these artworks have an appeal that crosses aesthetic, social, and geographical boundaries, earning them wide recognition as being among the most compelling art of our time. The quilters of Gee's Bend, a small rural community near Selma, Alabama, use salvaged fabric in orchestrations of strong colors, dynamic patterns, and eccentric geometric shapes. While drawing from classic traditions of American quilt making, their sensitivity to the evocative power of materials and fine balance of optical tension and harmony marks their quilts as truly original. The New York Times has called them "some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced." Going beyond the beauty and tactile richness of the Gee's Bend quilts, the densely layered assemblages of Thornton Dial are, in his words, "about ideas, and about life, and the experiences of the world." A keen observer and interpreter of his times, Dial uses the technique of bricolage--the aesthetic reconfiguring of found objects--to reflect on personal memories, insights into root causes of racism and poverty, and news events and programs he sees on television. The Wall Street Journal has called Dial's works "tough, beautiful, disturbing, seductive, improvisatory, unignorable, fierce, exhilarating, ambiguous--and much more." While Dial's social symbolism contrasts with the inherent abstraction of the Gee's Bend quilts, the two are linked by an appreciation for the poetic and evidentiary power of raw materials, which they transform into expressions of beauty and truth. The artworks reproduced in this exhibition catalog are drawn from the extensive collection of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. The 43 color plates are accompanied by illustrated essays by curators Paul Arnett and Joanne Cubbs.
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Publisher
Frist Center for T.H.E. V/SUAL Arts
ISBN-10
082651880x
ISBN-13
9780826518804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038716322
Product Key Features
Book Title
Creation Story : Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Quilts & Quilting, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Social Science
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12.6in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
11.7in
Item Weight
48 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nk9112.C83 2012
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-005234
Dewey Decimal
746.4609761
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
In Collaboration with Frist Art Museum Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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