Threads of light : Chinese embroidery from Suzhou and the photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum
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Threads of light : Chinese embroidery from Suzhou and the photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum
（UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series / Doran H. Ross ... [et al.], no. 3）
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c1999
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- : soft
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171)
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780930741709
Description
Intrigued with the possibility of integrating texture in his work, American landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has a long-standing collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (SERI) in China. This volume describes the history of SERI with illustrations of its traditional embroidery and then proceeds to pair Ketchum's photographic images with their exquisite embroidered counterparts. Essays locate the achievement of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute within the context of traditional Chinese embroidery and trace the willingness to innovate that has long characterized this remarkable institution.
Table of Contents
Other contributors include Zhang Meifang, Robert Glenn Ketchum, and Jo Q. Hill.
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: soft ISBN 9780930741716
Description
Intrigued with the possibility of integrating texture in his work, American landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has a long-standing collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (SERI) in China. This splendidly designed volume describes the history of SERI with illustrations of its traditional embroidery and then proceeds to pair Ketchum's photographic images with their exquisite embroidered counterparts. Essays locate the achievement of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute within the context of traditional Chinese embroidery and trace the willingness to innovate that has long characterized this remarkable institution.
Table of Contents
Other contributors include Zhang Meifang, Robert Glenn Ketchum, and Jo Q. Hill.
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