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Always there : the African-American presence in American quilts / Cuesta Benberry ; forewords by Jonathan Holstein and Shelly Zegart.
LIBRA - Rare NK9112 .B45 1992 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benberry, Cuesta.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American quilts--Exhibitions.
- African American quilts.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 132 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Kentucky. : The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc., 1992.
- Summary:
- Thoughtfully written by curator Cuesta Benberry as catalogue for The Kentucky Quilt Project's installation of 1992 exhibition by the same title. Features 35 quilts in full color. Forewords by Jonathan Holstein & Shelly Zegart. Text discusses the historical context of African-American quiltmaking in the mainstream of American quilting and reviews some of the current artists' use of quilts as their point of reference.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Jonathan Holstein
- Foreword / by Shelly Zegart
- Introduction / by Cuesta Benberry
- Slave-Made Quilts in Ante-Bellum America
- Free Blacks in Ante-Bellum America
- Beyond Our Borders
- Post-Bellum Period: Elizabeth Keckley
- Bible Quilts
- Late Nineteenth Century
- Perkins Family Quilts
- African-American Quilts in the Twentieth Century
- Artists and Authors
- The Quilts.
- Notes:
- "First edition published January, 1992."
- "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition: Always there : the African-American presence in American quilts, produced by the Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc. as part of Louisville Celebrates the American quilt, Museum of History and Science, Louisville, Kentucky, February 7, 1992-March 31, 1992"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Benberry, Cuesta. Always there.
- ISBN:
- 1880584026
- 9781880584026
- OCLC:
- 25259751
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