Stacy I Morgan, Yvonne Thomas Wells

Broschiertes Buch

The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

Beschreibung

A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 colour plates of Wells’s narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself.

Autor

Stacy I. Morgan is professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America (winner of the Wayland D. Hand Prize from the American Folklore Society) and Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953. Yvonne Thomas Wells is a contemporary artist and lifelong educator from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is a recipient of the Governor's Arts Award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and has represented Alabama in exhibitions in Vence, France, and Pietrasanta, Italy. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the High Museum of Art, the International Quilt Museum, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, among other art institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 277mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1928g
• ISBN-13: 9780817361389
• ISBN-10: 0817361383
• Artikelnr.: 69553749