Product Description

Looks at how artists use their collections to make artwork. Presented in gallery-style format, this work allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting artwork they make from it. It features the collections and the artwork of 33 major mixed-media artists. It also includes journals, assemblages, altered books, and jewellery pieces.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #257740 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .85" h x 9.46" w x 11.30" l, 2.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

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Review
"Perrella, Lynne. Art Making, Collections & Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists. Quarry: Quayside. 2008. 160p. photogs. ISBN 978-1-59253-363-3. $26.99," FINE ARTS Perrella (Beyond Paper Dolls) features creative uses by 35 artists of found and collected objects such as buttons, shells, textiles, photos, suitcases, utensils, and other castoffs that are given second lives in art projects. Examples of each artistAEs works are displayed on a colorful double-page spread, with large photo reproductions and commentary that includes quotations from writers and musicians. Some of the most innovative and clever applications are wedding-cake-box sculptures, worn and painted gloves, and outlandishly decorated corsets and military garb. Instead of serious intellectual art, this is more a showcase of works by artists having fun with trinkets and treasured ephemera. Contact information and artist web sites are included at the back. A popular crafts addition suitable for many public collections.

Russell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL, Library Journal, April 2008

About the Author
Lynne Perrella is an artist, author and workshop instructor. She has written two books for Quarry - Artists Journals & Sketchbooks and Alphabetica. She contributes articles to a variety of magazines and her work has appeared in various books on mixed media.