Textile Art Books Catalogue: Seconds (Slightly Damaged Books)

Catalogue: Seconds (Slightly Damaged Books)

Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain vol 3 (reduced-price Seconds)

Ed. M Koumis, introduction by Jeremy Theophilus

Not quite half price this one! few only. Over 130 colour photos, 144 pages, 286 x 242, softback only featuring:
Caroline Bartlett, Dail Behennah, Pauline Burbidge, Noel Dyrenforth, Jilly Edwards, Susie Freeman, Frances Geesin, Fiona Hutchison, Shizuko Kimura, Norma Starszakowna, Janet Stoyel, Sarah Taylor, Rosalind Wyatt

ISBN: 1 902015 16 9 / [978-1902015-16-3]

Price: £29.95

Art Textiles of the World: Australia vol 2

Introduction by Robyn Daw. Edited by Matthew Koumis with Beth Smith and Rosie Tatham

"Thirteen outstanding Australian textile artists are included. This is a unique series, with magnificent images, biographical details and a very readable introduction by Robyn Daw." Textile Fibre Forum. 142 colour photographs, 120 pages 286 x 242mm softback only. Available from: Britain: Contemporary Applied Arts, London, Embroiderers’ Guild; USA http://www.textilemuseum.org/ Australia: http://www.ggcreations.com.au/tafta/ http://www.artisan.com.au/ or from the featured artists Featured artists: Anne Farren, Pamela Fitzsimons, Beth Hatton, Greg Leong, Sara Lindsay, Zoe MacDonell, Jeannie Mooney, Rosemary O'Rourke, Julie Ryder, Nalda Searles, Ilka White, Jane Whiteley, Liz Williamson

ISBN: ISBN: 1 902015 14 2 (9781902015149)

Price: £15.00

Reinventing Textiles: vol 2 Gender & Identity (Half price seconds)

Edited with an introduction by Professor Janis Jefferies

Textile Transitions by Janis Jefferies (UK); Textile Art - Who are you? by Sarat Maharaj (UK); The Thread of Passage: Giorgia Volpe, by Mariette Bouillet (Canada); The Dress; Bodies and Boundaries, by Renée Baert (Canada); Bodies, Clothes, Skins, by Giorgia Volpe & Mariette Bouillet (Canada); Forbidden Touch: Anne Wilson's Cloth, by Alison Ferris (USA); The Sewing Desire Machine, by Peter Hobbs (Canada); Voyage: Home is Where we Start From, by Kay Lawrence (Australia) & Lindsay Obermeyer (USA); Migrant Textiles: Burdens, Bundles and Baggage, by Barbara Layne (Canada); Re-constructing Chinese, by Greg Kwok Keung Leong (Australia); Remembering Toba Tek Singh: A Video Installation by Nalini Malani, by Victoria Lynn (Australia); Embroidering the Motherland: The Fabric of Palestinian National Identity, by Tina Sherwell (Israel); Kim Sooja's Bottari and Her Journey, by Sun Jung Kim (South Korea); Nordic Textile Traditions and Visions, by Lisbeth Tolstrup (Denmark)

ISBN: ISBN: 1 9020151 0 X

Price: £12.50

Portfolio Vol 3: Caroline Broadhead (England) (Half price seconds)

Essay: Where Light Passes Through, by Jeremy Theophilus

"This book, examining her work from 1998 to the present, represents a fluid slippage between contemporary textiles, jewellery, performance and installation based practices."
Object, Australia. This beautifully illustrated book includes a chapter entitled 'Inspirations: Windows and Shadows' containing photographs by the artist. Materials used include tulle, scorched silk, elastane, scorched cotton, linen, photography. Born in 1950, Broadhead trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997.
Caroline Broadhead is a featured artist in Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain volume 2.
[http://www.bmgallery.co.uk/broadhead/broadhead.htm].

ISBN: 1 902015 23 1 (softback only)
31 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 31: Kumai Kyoko (Japan) (Half price seconds)

Martina Margetts and Ryoko Kuroda

Kumai’s improvisatory wire sculptures probe the strength and fragility of nature through an intriguing dialogue with new technologies. "Drawing on observation and on childhood memories of nature's elements - wind, fire, air, earth - Kyoko Kumai enables us to participate directly in her lived experience. While some works are small and intimate, her formidable reputation rests on her vast works which suggest growth in nature, spreading across walls and floors, atmospherically enveloping space and light and suggesting a cyclical rather than linear shape of time. Pattern, colour, form, as well as monumentality and lightness (permanence and transience), are all derived from the patient and repeptitive manipulation of stainless-steel fimalment; but while the economy of material and process suggests a minimalist approach, it belies a lingering emotional charge." [from a Foreword by Martina Margetts, RCA, London]

ISBN: 1 902015 65 7 (softback)
Bilingual edition, Japanese and English.

Price: £7.25

Art Textiles of the World: The Netherlands (Half price seconds)

Edited with an essay by Dery Timmer

A lavishly illustrated book of ten profiles of leading exponents of textile art from Holland aka the Netherlands. Edited with an essay by Dery Timmer 'Textile - A Bird's Eye View - Thoughts on textile in Netherlands'

ISBN: 1 902015 06 1 (softback)
96pp · 52 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 286 x 242mm

Price: £12.50

Art Textiles of the World: USA vol 1 (Damaged covers)

Edited with an introduction by Matthew Koumis

Essay by artist and writer Ilze Aviks: 'The Art Textile, a conversation in progress'. The featured artists, all of whom introduce their work to the book reader, mostly work in unique ways which are difficult to categorise! Artists: Kyoung Ae Cho (pine needles and burn marks, hair), Virginia Davis (handwoven ikat linen canvas, double weave), Deborah Fisher (found objects, velvet, linen, satin), Ann Hamilton (sculptural installations), Linda Hutchins (woven tapestry), Jane Lackey (acrylic, ink, cork, birch, ink, dictionaries), Susan Lordi Marker (text and cloth, devore, cloque), Charlene Nemec-Kessel (double or triple weave pick up, embroidery), Jason Pollen (silk, fiber reactive dyes, vat dye discharge), Jane Sauer (soft sculpture, knotted waxed linen threads)

ISBN: 0 9526267 1 3 (softback only)
94pp · 61 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 286 x 242mm ·

Price: £12.50

Portfolio Vol 8: Helen Lancaster (Australia) (damaged covers)

Carolynne Skinner

The perilous fragility of nature, beautifully depicted by an outstanding conceptual environmentalist. This volume is lavishly illustrated with photographs of her art: drawings, crochet, embroidery and fabric manipulation, all equally beautiful. Frequently inspired by the Great Barrier reef, Lancaster's work delicately raises the alarm: our world is in danger.

ISBN: 1 902015 29 0
40 colour photos, 22cm square, 48 pages

Price: £7.25

Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain vol 2 (reduced price seconds)

Edited with an introduction by Dr Jennifer Harris

Featuring Janet Ledsham (felt, plant material, stitch), Michael Brennand-Wood (mixed media, stitch, inlaid fabric in wooden base), Jo Budd (hand stitched dyed silk and cotton), Caroline Broadhead (installations, wire, cloth, paint), Shelly Goldsmith (tapestry, silk, nylon monofilament), Rushton Aust (printed and painted textile designs and hangings), Lesley Mitchison (woven, printed/devore, embroidered and assembled cotton etc), Polly Binns (linen, painted and stitched), Sally Freshwater (architectural installations from toughspun, aluminium, etc), Alice Kettle (machine embroidery, free embroidery)

ISBN: 0 9526267 6 4 (softback only)
96pp · 52 col. illus · 286 x 242mm ·

Price: £20.00

Portfolio Vol 34: Pauline Burbidge (England) (slight second)

Dr Jennifer Harris and Judith Duffey Harding

www.paulineburbidge-quilts.com "Pauline Burbidge is recognized internationally as the premier UK artist working in large scale quilted wall hangings. Her extensive exhibiting and teaching in the US throughout her 30 year career makes her a leader in the American art quilt movement as well. Museums purchasing her work include the V&A museum, London; the Museum of Costume and Textiles, Nottingham; the National Museums of Scotland; Glasgow Museums; Ulster Folk Museum, belfast; and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester." From an introduction by Penny McMorris. "Anyone familiar with the impact of her vibrantly graphic style might be astonished to discover her newest body of work. Dramatic changes in outlook and execution have given the work a very different character. The dazzling primary contrasts have vanished, making way for complex and subtly evocative arrangements in black, white and grey. Far more restrained, contemplative in mood and almost sculptural, their newly irregular surfaces begin to disrupt the pictorial flatness of solid fabric... a textural painterly treatment." Adapted from the essay by Judith Duffey Harding

ISBN: 1 902015 71 1 (softback)

Price: £10.25

Korea Volume One (half price seconds)

Ed Mi-Kyoung Lee

Featured artists: Kea-Nam Cha, So-Lim Cha, Kyung-Yeun Chung, Shin-Ja Lee, Young-Soon Kim, Ja-Hong Ku, Sung-Soon Lee, Soo-Chul Park, Burn-Soo Song, Kyung-Ae Wang.

ISBN:
112pages 286mm x 242mm

Price: £15.00

Portfolio Vol 28: Agano Machiko (Japan) (half price seconds) (sorry all gone)

Laurel Reuter; Foreword by Takeo Uchiyama

New reprint now available
Professor of Textiles at Kyoto Seika University, Agano is a poet who explores the patterns of nature using materials such as fishing nets, bamboo, organza, soil and manila hemp. "Machiko Agano uses various materials for her work, but she never forces them to obey her intentions. She uses the characteristics and inherent nature of each material. They can be described as the fruits of her free heart. Because of her sensitivity to nature, Machiko Agano accepts its whispering voices and does not fail to notice their subtle changes of expression. [From a Foreword by Takeo Uchiyama, Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto].

ISBN: 1 902015 59 2 (softback)

Out of Print

Portfolio Vol 22: Gyöngy Laky (USA) (half price seconds)

Janet Koplos; Foreword by James Melchert

Only in her earliest works did she regularly plait, weave, twine or use any other technique of fine basketry. Instead she has made a partice of simply gathering together somewhat stiff materials and fusing them in overlapping relationships sufficient to suggest a container form...Laky's favoured basketry material is the prunings that she obtains from public and private sources such as park or street trees and orchards....to these materials she adds unusual complements, such as screws and telephone wire...'Industrial prunings is a term she has frequently used, paired with 'orchard prunings'. It's a clever way of expressing availability and selection from the modern world, without restriction. [extracts from the essay by Janet Koplos]

ISBN: 1 902015 39 8 (softback)

Price: £7.25

Reinventing Textiles: vol 1 Tradition & Innovation (half price seconds)

Edited with an introduction by Professor Sue Rowley

Published with the support of Southern Arts.
Now reprinted, 2nd impression November 2004.
Craft, Creativity and Critical Practice, by Professor Sue Rowley (Australia); "All ornaments are useful to scale facades, by Julian Ruesga Bono (Spain); Why is there no textile art in Hong Kong? by Hazel Clark (Hong Kong); Australian Weavers in Relation to Ancient Artefacts from Cyprus, by Diana Wood Conroy (Australia); A deeper Examination by Wlodzimierz Cygan (Poland; Yinka Shonibare: Dressing Down Textiles in a Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour, by Janis Jefferies (UK): Australian Indigenous Textiles: Facilitating Radical Exchange, by Doreen Mellor (Australia): Textiles as Viewfinder: Susie Brandt + Quotidian + Cloth, by Margo Mensing (USA); Kapda, by Nima Poovaya Smith (UK)
see also Portfolio Collection Vol 32 on Susie Brandt

ISBN: 1 9020150 0 2
168pp · 15 col. illus, 10 b&w illus. · 230 x 160mm ·

Price: £12.50

Portfolio Vol 35 Norma Minkowitz (USA) (cut price seconds)

Kathleen Whitney, Jane Adlin, David McFadden

Norma Minkowitz has taken textile art to new heights. Her shellac-stiffened and painted crochet sculptures emerge as unique and brilliant forms. All of Minkowitz's sculptures are remarkable for their ability to evoke what are seemingly opposing visual sensations. The psychological complexities of her work, the observation of human behaviour, and the metaphorical containment, fuse into the beautiful forms she creates, making some of the most important sculptures of our time (excerpt from the introduction by Jane Adlin, Assistant Curator, Dept. of 19th Century Painting, Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

ISBN: 1 902015 91 6

Price: £8.95

Portfolio Vol 18: Jason Pollen (USA) (half price seconds)

H. L Hix; foreword by Patricia Malarcher

Jason Pollen's work trusts the transcendent to assert itself in silk and color, as it does in dance and music, those other means, in Yeats's words, "of conversing with eternity" [H. L Hix] "When I first saw Jason Pollen's textiles at a New York Gallery in the early 90s, my attention was immediately riveted. In each work, layers of brilliantly dyed silk particles were invisibly fused to a transparent surface. the pieces of silk were like brush strokes detached from a canvas, or molecules suspended in a solution". [Patricia Malarcher]

ISBN: 1 902015 738 (softback)

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 36: Merle Temkin (USA) (half price seconds)

Dominique Nahas, foreword by Lois Martin

"Merle Temkin's paintings are intensely focused on the particular, and her scrutiny is so extreme that she forces the viewer into a perceptional leap - where scale changes, and something tiny grows huge. Her subject matter is the whorls of prints from her own skin, most often her left index finger. Greatly enlarged, the ridges form spots and stripes. Like a camera lens zooming from extreme close up to infinity, they alternately suggest the markings on an animal's coat, or a vast view of a swirling solar system. Temkin has said: "The work has to do with my identity. Fingerprints are the most personal signature. they are uniquely my own and at the same time completely anonymous and universal." "

ISBN: 1 902015 924

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 14: Lia Cook (USA) (half price seconds)

Jenni Sorkin, Meredith Tromble and Melissa Leventon

Book contains three different texts in addition to Artist's Biography: Rapt in Memory: The Art of Lia Cook by Meredith Tromble.
Weaving Possession by Jenni Sorkin, winner of 2004 Art Journal Award
foreword by Melissa Leventon

ISBN: 1 902015 34 7 (softback)

32 colour photos, 22cm x 22cm, 48 pages

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 17: Kyoung Ae Cho (USA/S Korea) (half price seconds)

Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel; Essay by H. L. Hix; Remeniscences by the Artist

"The work of Kyoung Ae Cho is informed by two disparate worlds: a richly nuanced biological world with accessible evolving patterns of growth, and a complex, diverse realm of digital information that continues to expand progressively. For the artist, each of these two contrasting realms has its own allure. For Kyoung Ae Cho, the place between is a platform for reaction that is vibrant with contemporary potential."
from the Foreword by Gerhardt Knodel.

ISBN: 1 902015 49 5 (softback)
Korean and English text. 48 pages, 22cm x22cm, 27 colour photos

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 15: Jane Lackey (USA), (Half Price Seconds)

Introduction by Buzz Spector; Foreword by Irene Hofmann; 'Distillations' by Helga Pakasaar

With meticulous craft and profound critical awareness Jane Lackey has produced a body of artworks that image the codes of physical being through the processes of the studio. Lackey's painted panels and shaped felt drawings are exquisitely skinlike, evoking the body's outer covering through tenderly but relentlessly worked surfaces. In recent work she has explored ways of representing the human genome through acts of artistic surgery performed upon dictionaries...traces of parinting can be read across these panoramic fields of cut edges as subtly varied striations, remeniscent of the gels and smears studied in genetic laboratories...These genomic references are paired with snippets of readable text; sentences or phrases containing misspellings that are the equivalent of a code altered in transmission. [From the introduction by Buzz Spector, artist, writer and Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York]
"Jane Lackey creates works that explore the territory between art, science and linguistics..." [from the Foreword by Irene Hoffman, Curator of Contemporary Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

http://www.janelackey.com/

ISBN: 1 902015 35 5

26 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm

Price: £7.25

Art Textiles of the World: Scandinavia, Vol Two (Half Price Seconds)

Editor Matthew Koumis

now available Artists featured: Agneta Hobin, Maija Lavonen, Silja Puranen (Finland); Nina Hart, Kirsten Nissen, Grethe Wittrock (Denmark); Bente Saetrang, Ingunn Skogholt (Norway); Monica Nilsson (Sweden); Gudrun Gunnarsdottir (Iceland).

ISBN: 1 902015 05 3
July 2005 100 colour photos 112 pages

Price: £15.00

Art Textiles of the World: Scandinavia Volume One (Half Price Seconds)

Edited with an introduction by Matthew Koumis

Profiles of 13 exciting exponents of contemporary textile art from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland.
Includes lavishly illustrated profiles of Gunvor Nervold Antonsen, Hildur Bjarnadottir, Inger-Johanne Brautaset, Annika Ekdahl, Ane Henrkisen, Aino Kajaniemi, Astrid Krogh, Anna Lindal, Marianne Mannsaker, Piila Saksela, Ulla Maija Vikman, Wagle & Lovaas

ISBN: 1 902015 01 0
100 colour photos, 112 pages

Price: £15.00

Portfolio Vol 23: Virgina Davis (USA) (Half Price Seconds)

Laurel Reuter; Foreword by Carrie Lederer

"Davis uses the loom to create works of enormous visual appeal that are enriched by illusionistic effects and subversive conceptual complexity. Confronting the historic distinction between craft and fine art, Davis deliberately blurs the boundaries between weaving and painting. Using a fine linen thread, she weaves a cloth that closely resembles the most expensive painter's canvas. She may also paint the threads with acrylic pigment prior to weaving so that she not only weaves a cloth that is a painter's canvas, she actually weaves a painting into it... Davis is undoubtedly one of the finest weavers at work today." Carrie Lederer, Curator, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California

ISBN: 1 902015 40 1 (softback)

Price: £7.25

Portfolio Vol 21: Emily DuBois (USA) (half price seconds)

Suzanne Baizerman and Melissa Leventon, poetry extracts from Elizabeth Robinson

"Emily DuBois is part of a long tradition of artists whose subject is nature. For DuBois, it is elemental patterns revealing motion or growth - ripples in water or sand, cloud formations, the ikat-like feather variegations and shell patterns - that fascinate her and inspire the seemingly abstract compositions of weaving after weaving. DuBois' art is informed by her philosphy of life, which is strongly influenced by her practice of Tai Chi Chuan...Later DuBois also used some of her Jacquard-woven textiles as material for actual collage; Stills 10, for example, is constructed from sections of Jacquard- and Dobby-woven fabric that she has cut up, pieced together, and embelllished with surface stitching and painting...Her barkcloths currently resemble her recent collaged textiles quite closely, but, given her revived interest in painting, they may evolve into something quite different." [from the essay by Melissa Leventon]

ISBN: 1 902015 38 X (softback)

Price: £7.25

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