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Author: GILLIAN VOGELSANG-EASTWOOD
Embroidery is one of the world’s most widely shared forms of creative expression—and one of its most varied and diverse.
It can be found in every region, yet its visual languages, themes, and techniques vary greatly: Some are marked by unique styles and others show influences from neighboring cultures.
“The Atlas of World Embroidery” examines many distinctive embroidery styles and traditions found across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
Decades ago, Mumford wrote that algebraic geometry “seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics.”
The revolution has now fully come to pass and has fundamentally changed how we think about many fields of mathematics.
This book provides a thorough foundation in the powerful ideas that now shape the landscape, with an informal yet rigorous exposition that builds intuition for the formidable machinery.
