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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Accidentally on Purpose: The Aesthetic Management of Irregularities in African Textiles and African-American Quiltsby: Eli Leon  List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $31.16 You Save: $8.79 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 646 EAN: 9780977149124 ISBN: 0977149129 Label: Figge Art Museum Manufacturer: Figge Art Museum Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: February 15, 2007 Publisher: Figge Art Museum Studio: Figge Art Museum Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This exuberantly illustrated book celebrates the sophistication, vivacity, and significance of improvisational African-Aemrican quilts, both as artistic achievements and as expressions of African-American traditions. The knowledge, attitudes, and values carried across the Atlantic by enslaved Africans appear to have informed a quiltmaking tradition so powerful that, to this day, it preserves its identity in a special province of African-American quilts. Such "Afro-traditional" quilts are made by people who have no formal art training and who usually do not consider themselves artists; they learned their craft and absorbed its aesthetics by watching and helping their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who, in turn, learned form previous generations. The resulting--often highly idiosyncratic--quilts call out to be seen as the works of art that they are. The brilliance of this work must be partially credited to a tradition which encourages individual expression and provides a context in which the talents of individual artists can flourish. Improvisation, pervasive in black African art and familiar as a basic element of many African-American musical forms, is a vital force in this tradition. The artists maintain a generous attitude toward the accidental, embracing innovations that originate beyond the conscious domain. they use approximate measurement and "flexible patterning," in which the design, conceived of as a an invitation to variation, will not repeat, but will materialize in a sequence of visual elaborations. Afro-traditional attitudes and methods are antithetical to the standard American quiltmaking tradition--practiced by both whites and blacks--in which great value is placed on precise measurement and exact pattern replication. Instead they bear a keen likeness to the improvisatory practices of the textile-makers of Kongo and West Africa, regions from which American slaves were taken. These antipathies and affinities suggest an enduring African influence on the Afro-traditional quilt. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Wish I had Seen the ExhibitThis text, illustrated with over 120 color photographs and interviews with quilt makers and descendants, is of interest to scholars of many disciplines and an inspiration to quilters and other artists. Working back, using interviews from the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, the origins of African-American and Afro-traditional quilt making techniques are explored and the "error of omission" in reconstructing a history of American quilt making puts these quilts in a cultural context more ... Read More 
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