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Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection
Pamela A. Parmal
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Description for Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection
Hardcover. Presents more than sixty graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. This text also sheds light on the social and cultural history of the quilts as well as the practices and aspirations of their mostly anonymous makers, who created such works of beauty. Num Pages: 144 pages, 83 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFW; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Quilts and Color presents more than sixty graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. These collectors recognized that quilt makers often grappled with the same concerns as many modern artists. Influenced by twentieth-century art developments such as Abstraction, Op Art and the Colour Field movement, Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy were among the first to appreciate quilts as more than simply decorative bedcovers, women’s fancy work, or symbols of a rustic past. Reproduced brilliantly and arranged by ideas based in colour theory – Vibrations, Mixtures, Gradation Harmonies, ... Read more
Quilts and Color presents more than sixty graphically bold American quilts from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection, one of the finest and largest collections of quilts in the world. These collectors recognized that quilt makers often grappled with the same concerns as many modern artists. Influenced by twentieth-century art developments such as Abstraction, Op Art and the Colour Field movement, Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy were among the first to appreciate quilts as more than simply decorative bedcovers, women’s fancy work, or symbols of a rustic past. Reproduced brilliantly and arranged by ideas based in colour theory – Vibrations, Mixtures, Gradation Harmonies, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1014g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780878468249
SKU
V9780878468249
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