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Diamonds and Bars: The Art of the Amish People
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Features
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GMBH; Bilingual edition July 25, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3897902621
ISBN-13: 978-3897902626
Product Dimensions:
12.2 x 11.6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
Product Description
Abstraction and colour. Those are the buzzwords designating the salient charactistics of Amish quilts, which remind anyone looking at them of modern painting, be it Josef Albers, Barnett Newman or Frank Stella. Diamonds and bars - lozenges, squares, elongated rectangles - fiery red, vivid green, smokey blue, purple With their stringent geometry, broad colour fields and astringent composition, Amish quilts are startlingly close to Concrete art, Hard-Edge painting and Minimalism. However, the modern appearance of these patchwork quilts stemmed from the design intention of an 18th-century Anabaptist Christian denomination that has chosen to live without the benefit of modern technology in relative isolation. Although the Amish quilts in the collection date from the reign of Queen Victoria and the Jugendstil/Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, they represent the diametric opposite of synchronous European-inspired American art yet prefigure the design principles of Modernism. Europeans began to discove
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Diamonds and Bars: The Art of the Amish People
by Florian Hufnagl
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