Editor: Jane Thomas Paul Jackson
Publisher: Merrell Publishers, London
Publication: 2001, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 128
Size: 222 x 280
Text: English
ISBN: 1858941458
(Preface) 'Paper is one of the most versatile of all media. We can all relate to the simple pleasure of crumpling paper in the palm of the hand, if only to toss it into the waste-paper basket. Whether folded, cut or moulded as pulp, its role need not be restricted to that of support for other media. However, until the mid-twentieth century such techniques as papier mâché and origami were accorded the status of little more than curiosities, certainly not to be regarded as vehicles for serious creative endeavour. Attitudes changed after artists of the standing of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began to explore the nature of paper, taking it from the flatness of collage towards the three-dimensionality of sculpture. Over the last fifty years a growing number of practitioners from disciplines as diverse as textiles, ceramics, sculpture, painting and design have used paper as their principal material...'
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