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When This You See...
Elaine Reichek
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Description for When This You See...
Hardback. Features a series of thirty-one embroidered samplers by contemporary American artist Elaine Reichek. In these striking works, Reichek replaces the familiar sayings traditionally found in samplers with witty combinations of quotations from mythology, literature, science, art history, and popular culture. Num Pages: 96 pages, 32 colour illustrations, 3 gatefolds. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WFBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 794.
When This You See... is a series of 31 artworks in the medium of embroidery, made between 1996 and 1999, by the American artist Elaine Reichek. All of these beautiful images are reproduced here in full colour and three appear in spectacular gatefolds. traditional samplers dating from the mid- seventeeth to the early-eighteenth century. Created by girls and women as an educational exercise and as a pastime, samplers generally framed truisms, homilies, amd lessons within decorative patterns and motifs. In When This You See..., Reichek replaces these familiar sayings with quotations from mythology, literature, science, art history, and popular culture, ... Read more
When This You See... is a series of 31 artworks in the medium of embroidery, made between 1996 and 1999, by the American artist Elaine Reichek. All of these beautiful images are reproduced here in full colour and three appear in spectacular gatefolds. traditional samplers dating from the mid- seventeeth to the early-eighteenth century. Created by girls and women as an educational exercise and as a pastime, samplers generally framed truisms, homilies, amd lessons within decorative patterns and motifs. In When This You See..., Reichek replaces these familiar sayings with quotations from mythology, literature, science, art history, and popular culture, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
George Braziller Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
790g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807614600
SKU
V9780807614600
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99-15
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