Susan Ure--a prolific author and guest on The Christopher Lowell Show--presents an invaluable introduction to the most exciting, fastest-growing trend in crafts: mixing altered art with scrapbooking. It’s all about taking an existing volume and embellishing the pages until a unique, personal scrapbook emerges. Ure covers it all, from choosing materials to creating a pleasing composition.
... or assembling images to paper and metal , she is wading in her river searching for river glass , teaching art workshops throughout the U.S. , and spending time with her two sons , Robin and Roy , and her springer spaniel Aspen .
Previously published as New directions in altered books.
Pockets, Pull-Outs, and Hiding Places
Text is the imagined story of a real but anonymous little girl whose portrait is featured on the front cover. A key line repeated on the back cover reads, "Change seemed to be all I ever had...".
It is both a narrative and an acknowledgement of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical. Kentridge has made many flip books, but at 800 pages this is his most ambitious.
An all-new Illustrated guide to one of the fastest-growing art forms in North America!
This reproduction of Ellsworth Kelly's 1954 Sketchbook 23 offers a rare glimpse into the celebrated artist's rigorous exploration of line, form and composition.
This book combines everything held dear to the author's heart in a single volume - embroidery, writing, artwork, history and books.
In reproducing the work (which is uncollected elsewhere), this beautifully designed artist's book mischievously pits the model of the flipbook against the fragility of the antiquarian original, and flipping its pages animates Kentridge's ...
William Kentridge's distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts, are all strongly in evidence throughout this book, which provides new insights into the ...