Incorporating European embroideries, African weavings, kites and posters, hats and soft sculpture, hand tools, and many other items, this book celebrates the extraordinary originality of textiles and objects that people have created to adorn themselves and their homes for religious purposes and to express their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams. The 250 works depicted were sought out and assembled by Lloyd Cotsen, former chairman of the Neutrogena Corporation. They are among the highlights of Cotsen's enormous collection ...
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Incorporating European embroideries, African weavings, kites and posters, hats and soft sculpture, hand tools, and many other items, this book celebrates the extraordinary originality of textiles and objects that people have created to adorn themselves and their homes for religious purposes and to express their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams. The 250 works depicted were sought out and assembled by Lloyd Cotsen, former chairman of the Neutrogena Corporation. They are among the highlights of Cotsen's enormous collection, and serve as an introduction to the display of over 2500 works on view in the Neutrogena Wing of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, which opened in August 1998.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in fine jacket. Textiles and Objects from the Collections of Lloyd Cotsen and the Neutrogena Corporation. Profusely illustrated in color. 280pp. 4to, beige cloth, d.w. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1998). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Profusely illustrated. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 4to, 280 pp., "Works in Cloth, Ceramic, Wood, Metal, Straw, and Paper from Cultures throughout the World."
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Near Fine. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. pp. 280. 280 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good plus dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
