The Fine Art of Wood

by Fike, Bonita

• ISBN13: 9780789206800
• ISBN10: 0789206803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Abbeville Pr

Summary

With more than 130 works made during the past decade, The Fine Art of Wood celebrates a pivotal artistic breakthrough: artists working in wood now claim the same freedom of expression long enjoyed by ceramists and glass artists. Featuring strikingly handsome shapes, unusual finishes, and woods from every corner of the world, these innovative new pieces have been beautifully photographed and reproduced by the Detroit Institute of Arts in conjunction with an upcoming exhibition. The book's intelligent introduction also breaks new ground, tracing the evolution of these works away from traditional crafts and putting them in the aesthetic context of the fine arts by persuasively linking them to such recent movements as Pop art and Minimalism. An extensive catalog section spotlights the visual pleasures of the works themselves, by artists ranging from Ray Allen and Peter Arenskov to Hans Weissflog and Bob Womack.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(2)
Introduction	8	(2)
Robert Bohlen
Wood Transformed	10	(21)
Bonita Fike
Catalogue	31	(98)
Artist's Biographies	129	(5)
Mike Mendelson
Notes to the Essay	134	(1)
Bibliography	135