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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Here brilliantly photographed in full color are eighty-two masterpieces of American quiltmaking selected from one of the country’s finest repositories of classic Amish quilts the Esprit collection. All were conceived and stitched by women of Lancaster County Pennsylvania between 1870 and 1950. All are profoundly “home-made” creations geometric in pattern works of practicality and simplicity that reflect the essence of Amish principles. But in their boldness their purity their inspiration and their power. American quilts of this caliber can no longer be looked at solely as examples of domestic craftsmanship. They are seen here as true works of art. Tike text by Robert Hughes one of America’s most dis- tinguished art critics celebrates and analyzes the quilt as a major art form in the context of twentieth-century Amer- ican painting and sculpture (MP)