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Unfolding / Matthew Shlian.
Fine Arts Library N6537.S5325 A4 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shlian, Matthew, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shlian, Matthew.
- Paper work--United States--21st century.
- Paper work.
- Paper art--United States.
- Paper art.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Unfolding : the paper art and science of Matthew Shlian
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2020.
- Summary:
- Paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian has always recognized the material's potential for experimentation. Folded, tessellated, compressed, extrapolated, two-dimensional paper becomes three-dimensional sculpture in beautiful and unexpected ways. "My process is extremely varied from piece to piece. Often I start without a clear goal in mind, working within a series of limitations. For example on one piece I'll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle, etc. Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow." Unfolding is Shlian's first comprehensive monograph. A journey into the new possibilities of folding technology, the intricate complexities of Islamic patterns, and the sheer potential offered by a sheet of white paper, it celebrates a humble material, on the edge of its existence, elevated to timeless form and possibility.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Diana Gaston
- A sense of wonder / Lawrence Weschler
- Early work
- Architecture
- "A place of not knowing" : an interview with Stuart Kestenbaum
- Ara series
- Science & math
- Artist as revealer / Eric Broug
- Unholy series
- Art & music
- Sketchbooks 2006-2020
- Some caterpillars stay caterpillars.
- ISBN:
- 0500094284
- 9780500094280
- OCLC:
- 1145248379
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