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Unfolding / Matthew Shlian.
- Title
- Unfolding / Matthew Shlian.
- Author
- Shlian, Matthew,
- Publication
- London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2020.
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- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 x 26 cm
- Summary
- Paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian has always recognized the material's potential for experimentation. Folded, tessellated, compressed, extrapolated, two-dimensional paper becomes three-dimensional sculpture in beautiful and unexpected ways. "My process is extremely varied from piece to piece. Often I start without a clear goal in mind, working within a series of limitations. For example on one piece I'll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle, etc. Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow." Unfolding is Shlian's first comprehensive monograph. A journey into the new possibilities of folding technology, the intricate complexities of Islamic patterns, and the sheer potential offered by a sheet of white paper, it celebrates a humble material, on the edge of its existence, elevated to timeless form and possibility.
- Alternative Title
- Unfolding : the paper art and science of Matthew Shlian
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction / Diana Gaston -- A sense of wonder / Lawrence Weschler -- Early work -- Architecture -- "A place of not knowing" : an interview with Stuart Kestenbaum -- Ara series -- Science & math -- Artist as revealer / Eric Broug -- Unholy series -- Art & music -- Sketchbooks 2006-2020 -- Some caterpillars stay caterpillars.
- Call Number
- N6537.S5325
- ISBN
- 0500094284
- 9780500094280
- LCCN
- 40030457595
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries