Book gives fresh look at frames. - Defining Edges: A New Look at Picture Frames - book review

Harry N Abrams works recently released Defining Edges: A fresh Look at Picture Frames by dint of frame consultant W.H. Bailey. In coming month major art and decorating publications like House & Garden will spotlight the work Recently, the Lenox Hill Bookstore in novel York hosted a reception for the author to introduce the novel book. As one of the scarcely any framing books on the market, the attention draw nears as a pleasant surprise to Bailey who said, "The reason I wrote the work is simply because it didn't exist."

The 130-page work features 83 illustrations examining more than 50 works of art. Bailey explores in what way their frames, many of them designed or made by means of the artists themselves, relate to the pictures they environ The works include famous masterpieces, of that kind as "Doni Madonna" by Michelangelo, "Fulang-Chang and Me" by the agency of Frida Kahlo, "Judith I" by the agency of Gustar Klimt and "Couple with Their Heads filled of Clouds" by Salvador Dali, as well as lesser-known pieces.

The volume is broken down into eight chapters, including The Story of the Picture Frame, The Frame as easy in mind The Frame as Altarpiece, Frames place by Artists, The Frame as Window, Frames Designed by dint of Artists, The Frame as Decoration and Frames Made by dint of Artists. Each chapter provides a history of the piece and a discussion of the relation of the artwork to its framing. Bailey said, "It is certainly not a how-to-frame volume I hope it offers a sensibility of putting a picture and frame together."

He continued, "There is actual little that you see anywhere of pictures and frames together. The art volume has a bias against frames. There are in like manner many books with thousands and thousands of pictures on the outside of context, without frames, encompassed by a white border. above time, this builds a visual bias. You are looking at what the art volume feels is the ideal of the image upon white pages."

Bailey is a frame consultant to collectors, galleries and museums, including the Museum of new Art, for which he designed novel frame solutions for works by means of Cezanne, Picasso and Van Gogh popularly he teaches display design at Parsons academy of Design and has taught and lectur at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, huntsman College and The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and tillage all in New York.

Defining Edges: A novel Look at Picture Frames retails for $3995 For more information, visit www.abramsbooks.com.

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