Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor
Nina Stritzler-Levine (Ed.), Irma Boom (book design)
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture & Yale University Press, 2006 (Reprint)
€295,00
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First published in 2006, this book examines the small woven textile works produced by artist Sheila Hicks (b. 1934) over a fifty-year period. Focusing on some one hundred miniature tapestries from public and private collections, the book demonstrates the breadth of Hicks’s concerns: her playful subversions of weaving traditions, her persistent inquiry into the mysteries of color, her surprising range of materials, and her exploration of new technology. The volume, designed by Irma Boom and named “the most beautiful book in the world” at the 2007 Leipzig Book Fair, includes essays by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon, and Nina Stritzler-Levine as well as illustrations of the artist’s working tools, related drawings, photographs, and chronology.
The way the book block has been finished is sheer brilliance. The coarse contours of the weaves are echoed in the rough, ragged edges and the panel could only conclude that here the book block had been attacked with a saw. Sawn edges, then, rather than the usual cut edges. Probably not worth a special entry in the publishing industry’s glossary though.
Our copy is in perfect condition, new and in the original wrapping.
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