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Explores the two-hundred-year-old American tradition of freewheeling, improvisational, and asymmetrical quilts, whose makers experimented boldly with design, color, and pictorial motifs. This work examines the aesthetics and the social history of quilts from the nineteenth century onwards, including Amish, African American, and modern art quilts.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
International Quilt Study Center Collections
"Acts of Pride, Desperation, and Necessity": Aesthetics, Social History, and American Quilts
A Catalogue of Quilts
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9780295983097, 978-0295983097
      ISBN10: 0295983094
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the two-hundred-year-old American tradition of freewheeling, improvisational, and asymmetrical quilts, whose makers experimented boldly with design, color, and pictorial motifs. This work examines the aesthetics and the social history of quilts from the nineteenth century onwards, including Amish, African American, and modern art quilts.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      Acknowledgments
      International Quilt Study Center Collections
      "Acts of Pride, Desperation, and Necessity": Aesthetics, Social History, and American Quilts
      A Catalogue of Quilts
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Contributors

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