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New Expressions in Origami Art
Masterworks from 25 Leading Paper Artists
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**Winner of the 2017 Florence Temko Innovation Award**
This origami art book features the work of 25 contemporary master folders who are among the most innovative origami artists working today. They are pushing the boundaries of origami vigorously in new directions concerning style, scale, materials, subject and scope. This elite group includes:
Joel Cooper
Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine
Paul Jackson
Beth Johnson
Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
Robert J. Lang
Linda Mihara
Bernie Peyton
Richard Sweeney
And many more...
The stunning photos and brilliant essays in this book demonstrate why origami is now an international art movement--largely through the efforts and artistic genius of a few contemporary masters. The trailblazing efforts of Japanese artist Akira Yoshizawa elevated the paper folding to an art form by showing how subtle shapes and figures could be created from a single sheet of paper through a variety of non-traditional folding techniques.
Artists in other parts of the world--including the United States, France, England, China and Scandinavia--took Yoshizawa's cue and pushed these techniques further and further. The result has been the emergence of many new and surprising sculptural forms created through methods such as wet folding, curved creasing, tessellating and the application of alternative materials besides paper.
The stunning photography and interesting information on artists, exhibitions and inspirations, makes this the perfect coffee table book or gift for any art lover.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
"The Japanese have long enjoyed creating within limited boundaries of size and materials, from bonsai to netsuke, allowing narrowly defined restrictions to fuel their creativity. Meher McArthur provides a new survey of how artists and scientists worldwide have amplified spectacularly the one tiny world of origami." --Hollis Goodall, Curator of Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) "This book is for anyone who loves origami, looking at beautiful folds and learning a bit more about the creation process. More generally, actually, I think it's a wonderful book for anyone who appreciates art...it also makes a perfect present for people close to you to show them the potential of origami and it's not always recognized place in art." --Sara Adams, for Origami USA's The Fold "The works and images are stunning and definitely the highlight of this work." --Library Journal