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Amy O'Neill
Première monographie consacrée à l'artiste américaine, présentant ses grandes installations, ses sculptures et ses dessins sur le mode d'un voyage à travers l'imaginaire folklorique des banlieues et des campagnes américaines : une série de constructions en bois mises en parallèle avec des films réalisés dans un zoo déserté dans une forêt de Pennsylvanie, un ensemble de travaux inspirés d'attractions touristiques dans des parcs nationaux, et les gigantesques sculptures de la série Parade Float Graveyard réinterprétant les chars de parade spectaculaires de la Nouvelle Orléans.
Amy O'Neill
This journey through the American suburban imagination--by Pennsylvania-born Amy O'Neill, who currently lives and works in New York--reveals the uncanny that lies just beneath the banal. O'Neill's work is situated between the past and present, vernacular and global, high and low cultures. Her sculptures, installations and drawings trade in recycled bits of Americana like bald eagles, carnival midway games and basement rec rooms. As critic Gregory Williams writes, O'Neill's work looks back, "nostalgically to those sites in the American cultural landscape that leave a deep-fried residue on one's childhood memories." A recent installation, "Forest Park Forest Zoo" (2007), memorializes an abandoned roadside petting zoo that O'Neill found off a country road in the midst of a Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, forest. This first monograph includes a text by artist and writer John Miller.
The Color Book of Felted Crochet
Noted author and needlework expert Amy O'Neill Houck teams up with crochet designer Stina Ramos to present a colorful and fashionable wardrobe of crocheted garments and accessories presented in over 300 full-color photographs. The collection of 25 beautiful pieces inspired by nature's palette uses color from across the visible spectrum, and features a special felting process that adds a soft, sturdy texture to the crocheted fabric and allows even beginners to crochet and felt with confidence. From a tunic with a shawl collar in pale blue, a sweater with sweeping dolman sleeves in raspberry, and a pencil skirt in cardinal red to leg warmers, handbags, hats, and scarves, all the designs have c...
