UZBEK EMBROIDERY

Kate Fitz Gibbon and Andrew Hale

Central Asia?s famous Silk Road is the source of the dynamic, highly abstracted embroideries of the Uzbek peoples. Detailed, full-color photographs of the nearly 100 works in the Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts provide unparalleled access to the style and technique for which the embroideries of the Lakai and Kungrat nomads and the refined textiles of the city of Sharisabs are renowned. History, anthropology, and mythic tales blend with women?s textile magic in this first, fascinating publication illuminating a brilliant artistic tradition.
Kate Fitz Gibbon and Andrew Hale have written extensively on the arts of Central Asia. Their book Ikat: Silks of Central Asia, The Guido Goldman Collection won the Wittenborn Prize for the Best Art Book of 1997. They live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Hale writes and consults on vintage and contemporary photography and Fitz Gibbon specializes on issues involving art and cultural heritage. Her most recent book is Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law (2005).

Price: US$59.95