The Art Quilt

About this book

There are 304 pages of photos.The Art Quilt is a glorious gallery of the best of this fascinating new art form and the first comprehensive overview of the ambitions and achievements of quilt artists in America Europe and beyond. The books lively text traces the evolution of the quilt from bedcover to museum piece the quiltmaker from homemaker to academically trained artist and the workshop from kitchen to studio. The art quilt continues to reinvent itself as the quilters many of whom are profiled here along with discussions of their signature techniques search for innovative methods of construction use of non-traditional materials and personally meaningful subject matter. Many of the artists speak about their work in their own words and the quilts themselves in turn speak about the artists.