Quilts of Alaska: A Textile Album of the Last Frontier
by Gastineau Channel Historical Society

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Quilts of Alaska: A Textile Album of the Last Frontier: The exhibit and this book, comes exactly thirty years after the ground breaking quilt show organized by Jonathan Holstein and Gain van der Hoof in 1971. Abstract Design in American Quilts, their exhibit at the Whitney Museum, helped fuel the current quiltmaking revival. The visual power of these quilts astonished both the museum staff and the viewing public. In the new context of a prestigious New York art museum, quilts were finally elevated to a higher status in the traditional, though arbitrary, hierarchy of art objects. Because context strongly defines any object and limits how it is seen, the removal of quilts from their traditional setting to this gallery clearly aided in convincing the public that quilts were after all, “art.” Until this time, quilts generally had been considered a folk handicraft which may have been a blessing in disguise. Women quiltmakers in America, long neglected by the official art world, developed their own vocabulary of color and designs. Left free to work independently of “fine are” criteria, these American quiltmakers experimented and invented with the formal elements of abstract design. In the process of crafting quilts, a private expressive world of their own making was created where they could be their own best judges and worst critics. Quiltmakers had made, whether consciously or intuitively, the same aesthetic choices as Matisse or Mary Cassatt.

In the intervening years numerous exhibits have solidly established quilts as more than native folk art. One of the purposes of the Alaska quilt exhibit and this book is to help reclaim the domestic framework as a rightful place for making art and to emphasize the importance of the women's art made in that setting. Unlike the Whitney exhibit, we have chosen to go beyond aesthetic judgment and whenever possible include the history of the quilts, the connection between these quilted objects and their creative origin, and the story of the makers. The quilts we have chosen to present are not just the spectacular ones, but those that have meaning beyond their aesthetic appeal – those which served to illustrate the many personal and cultural purposes of quilts. Our exhibit and book are about this special group of art objects and the significance of the Alaska Quilt Survey documentation process.

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Weight:	0.59 kg
Price:	CDN$ 31.95 (US$ 31.09)

ISBN-10:	0970481500
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780970481504
Author:	Gastineau Channel Historical Society
Publisher:	Gastineau Channel Historical Society Juneau, Alaska
Publication Date:	2003
Pages:	112 pp
Size/Dimensions:	11 x 9 x .5 inches
Binding:	Paperback

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Quilts of Alaska: A Textile Album of the Last Frontierby Gastineau Channel Historical Society

Quilts of Alaska: A Textile Album of the Last Frontier
by Gastineau Channel Historical Society