书名：Chinese Patchwork: Ancient Origins, New Expressions / 中国拼布的源远与新生
定价：360.0
ISBN：9780878469079
作者：Nancy Berliner, Lois Conner
版次：1
出版时间：2025-12

内容提要：

题 目：Chinese Patchwork: Ancient Origins, New Expressions / 中国拼布的源远与新生

作 者：Nancy Berliner, Lois Conner

出 版：Museum of Fine Arts, Boston，2025

装 帧：精装，240页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：23*28.5*2.2 cm

 

 

追溯中国拼布艺术在家庭与乡村空间中的丰富传统——从其古老的起源到当代表现形式

拼布设计在中国有着悠久的历史，可追溯至近两千年前佛教传入该地区之时。几千年来，可以找到这样一条脉络：从精神修行者将拼布纺织品作为其信仰的视觉表达，到拼布在世俗文化中被使用并因其庇护力量而备受珍视。最终，拼布成为一种家庭装饰形式——以及艺术创造力的表达出口——这种传统在中国部分乡村地区延续至今。

《中国拼布》探索了20世纪和21世纪中国手工艺者的创造力，他们将碎布余料缝制成实用、具有装饰性和吉祥寓意的物品，供家中使用并为家人所用。这些物品展示了丰富多样的设计、图案与技法，既反映了地方倾向，也体现了制作者的个人审美。通过一系列学术论文，博物馆策展人南希·伯利纳阐明了这一艺术形式背后的传统与历史，以及其与中国视觉文化的联系；这些文章配以生动多彩的拼布作品的精美插图。对当代制作者的采访为读者提供了对这一实践及其复杂技法的第一手见解。美国摄影师洛伊丝·康纳拍摄的更多关于艺术家、他们的家人以及作品现场的照片，精美地展现了拼布在中国乡村中大胆的视觉存在。

 

Tracing the rich tradition of Chinese patchwork art in domestic and rural spaces, from its ancient origins to its contemporary manifestations

Patchwork design has a long history in China, dating back almost two thousand years to the arrival of Buddhism in the region. Across millennia, a thread can be followed from spiritual practitioners embracing patchwork textiles as a visual expression of their beliefs to patchwork's use in secular culture, where it was prized for its protective powers. Eventually, patchwork became a form of domestic decoration―and an outlet for artistic ingenuity―that continues in some areas of China's countryside today.

Chinese Patchwork explores the creativity of 20th- and 21st-century Chinese makers who stitch fabric remnants into functional, decorative and auspicious articles for use in their homes and by their families. These objects display a wide variety of designs, patterns and techniques, and reflect both local tendencies and the individual aesthetics of the makers. Through a series of scholarly essays, museum curator Nancy Berliner illuminates the tradition and history behind the art form, as well as its links to Chinese visual culture; these texts are illustrated by stunning reproductions of lively and colorful patchwork examples. Interviews with contemporary makers offer readers firsthand insight into the practice and its intricacies. Additional photographs of the artists, their families and their works in situ by American photographer Lois Conner beautifully illustrate patchwork's bold visual presence in rural China.