Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt Book

An utterly beautiful book. I had to fight myself not to commit the greatest sin of all and steal it from my local library.

My biggest criticism would be the way that the direct testimony by quilters is shoved to the back of the book. I would much rather have gotten to know Gee's Bend and the work of the people who live there through their own words. Once they were able to talk about their own places in the community and explain the lineage and connections between the different artists and families, so many things became clearer in my mind. If I had had that as my foundation, it would have been easier to process the art history/anthropology side of things. There would have been something firm to attach to the ideas and concepts and labels the outsiders were using to try and contextualize the quilts.