**Winner of the 2017 Florence Temko Innovation Award**
This origami art book features the work of 25 contemporary master
folders who are among the most innovative origami artists working today.
They are pushing the boundaries of origami vigorously in new directions
concerning style, scale, materials, subject and scope. This elite group
includes:
The stunning photos and brilliant essays in this book demonstrate why
origami is now an international art movement--largely through the
efforts and artistic genius of a few contemporary masters. The
trailblazing efforts of Japanese artist Akira Yoshizawa elevated the
paper folding to an art form by showing how subtle shapes and figures
could be created from a single sheet of paper through a variety of
non-traditional folding techniques.
Artists in other parts of the world--including the United States,
France, England, China and Scandinavia--took Yoshizawa's cue and pushed
these techniques further and further. The result has been the emergence
of many new and surprising sculptural forms created through methods such
as wet folding, curved creasing, tessellating and the application of
alternative materials besides paper.
The stunning photography and interesting information on artists,
exhibitions and inspirations, makes this the perfect coffee table book
or gift for any art lover.
