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Altered Art: Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More
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Product Description
Choose an object—a cigar box, playing cards, an old album cover—and use it as a creative starting point to make beautiful and entirely new items to display and use: that’s “altered art,” and it’s the fastest-growing trend in the craft world today. Here is the first book to explore the full range of its possibilities, from turning a vintage board game into a nostalgic wall hanging to creating whimsical art dolls from children’s blocks. Take a look at the artistic traditions that inspired this movement, and see how to use the crafter’s familiar tools, materials, and processes in entirely new ways. Paint, collage, pierce, sew, and cut the pages of an old book. Change an ordinary candy tin into a charming decorative storage case with paper scraps, metal grommets, and paint. The possibilities are infinite. The author lives in Asheville, NC.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #41306 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781579905507
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–Flush with gorgeous color examples, packed with helpful hints, and crammed with inspiring ideas, this title is an absolute must for any YA collection. Making art or jewelry from old Altoids tins, scrap photos, game pieces, and other found objects appeals to an edgier crowd than the scrapbook-faithful, though scrapbookers will also find much of interest here. Taylor begins with a brief history of altered art (Joseph Cornell was an early practitioner), discusses copyright issues with regard to borrowed images, then moves straight into techniques, tools, and a phenomenal gallery of a variety of artists' works. The author includes a few projects with step-by-step instructions, but not too many; the emphasis is on readers realizing their own voices, obsessions, and interests in original pieces. Altered Art is without a doubt one of the finest craft books available.–Emily Lloyd, formerly at Rehoboth Beach Public Library, DE
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* It is understandable that scrapbooking remains a "hot" craft (see our Spotlight interview, on p.705), given the satisfaction so many people derive from preserving souvenirs of personally memorable events, such as photographs, printed programs, and postcards. Also growing in popularity among crafters is "altered art," defined by veteran and versatile crafter, artist, and craft writer Taylor as "using ordinary objects to create art." Any sort of found object will do, from old books to a discarded file box to an old greeting card. The point of altered art, then, is to take the starting-point object and add other objects or decorations to it, as a way of expressing a personal aesthetic vision or statement. (The fortunate thing is that traditional artists' skills, such as drawing and painting, are not required--just some thought, planning, and imagination.) The illustrations in this book are numerous, gorgeous, and absolutely helpful, supporting an encouraging text that starts with general information, including basic techniques and ideas about selecting a starting-point object. Other crafters then join Taylor in presenting and explaining specific projects. No self-respecting crafter will be able to resist plunging straight in. Brad Hooper
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Customer Reviews
Great Inspiration!
I loved this book. A lot of the books about altered books look alike to me, but Terry Taylor's book is full of eclectic inspiration. One of the best parts are all the examples by different artists. It's nice to see a book without page after page of the same stuff. In particular, check out the work by Dorit Elisha on pages 35 and 79. This book is definitely a must-have if you are interested in altered books.
A piece of Art in itself!
This book is beautifully photographed and written with great detail. I consider it to be an important addition to my "altered art" book collection. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in altered art or collage art. It is filled with ideas and examples, as well as tools, and products useful to the art form. It will inspire you to start making your own altered art!
A long awaited treasure
Like my friend, Tracy Roos, I had been counting the days until this book came out and when it did, wow! Many of us working in the mixed media genre of art had heard the advanced buzz on this book and the wait was excruciating, to say the least. This exciting book is so inspiring, educational and just plain gorgeous, it's hard to avoid using cliches to describe it. Aside from being filled with the most awesome eye candy, it is so thought-provoking that I will be carrying it around with me forever. It was definitely worth the wait.
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