When This You See...

by Elaine Reichek and David Frankel

Book Overview

This book features When This You See..., a 1996-99 series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek. Traditionally, samplers framed truisms, homilies, and lessons within decorative patterns and motifs. Reichek replaces these familiar sayings with witty combinations of quotations from mythology, literature, science, art history, and popular culture. Most of the quotations relate to the arts of weaving,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614602
• ISBN13: 9780807614600
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.3"