Abstract Design in American Quilts: A Biography of an Exhibition (The Kentucky Quilt Project)

By Jonathan Holstein

Book Overview

The exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on 1 July 1971, and quilting has not been the same since. From this universally acknowledged seminal event dates the study of quilting as a serious art form and the tremendously important international cross-fertilization among art historians, textile scholars, and the artist-craftspeople who work in quilts. This important work is a personal statement of Jonathan Holstein's development as a pioneer quilting connoisseur, a guide to the quilts of the Whitney exhibition, and a study of the effects of the consequent explosion of attention to this art form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188058400X
• ISBN13: 9781880584002
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 9.5"