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 enlarge | Author: Jane Ann Wynn
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 73683
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 1581809727
Dewey Decimal Number: 702.812
EAN: 9781581809725
ASIN: 1581809727
Publication Date: September 20, 2007
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 Assemblage Art Book February 25, 2008
This book is inspiration and instructive for all of you collage and assemblage artists. I keep passing it on to friends who are tweeking old creative styles in a new way.
 SO MANY TECHNIQUES!!!! February 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Don't let the sorta creepy cover fool you, this book will be a STAPLE in your creative library! As a mixed media collage artist, I was tickled to find so many new ideas all in one place! It is filled with so many techniques you will want to try out. Enough to keep you busy for months and months of happy tinkering and molding and painting and more! The pictures and descriptions are really clear as well so there is no confusion. Totally inspiring!
collage January 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Gorgeous book and photos of collected objects, and many helpful suggestions for doing more of the same myself.
Take Heed, but Read January 9, 2008
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I want to thank all the reviewers who loved and extolled this obviously groundbreaking book. I also want to thank Christopher Palmer for his comments on possible technical errors in the text or the photograph cut-lines. If you proceed to the "Comments" following his Amazon.com review, you will note that the review engendered some controversy and ill feeling, which I would like to address here.
I know that authors (and I include myself, although to date I have only edited for publication -- not yet authored and published -- a book-length manuscript) can be exquisitely sensitive to criticism. I understand exactly where Jane A. Wynn is coming from in her response to Christopher Palmer's review. That said, Mr. Palmer's review alerted me to the possible necessity of filtering some specific instructions in the book through the perspective of an instructor who works with the relevant tools and who finds himself having to correct some errors that his students have picked up from other sources. His review did NOT, however, discourage me from investigating this obviously attractive and exciting book about altered imagery, which appears to include information not otherwise available on assemblage (a particular new interest of mine).
It may also be useful to note that sometimes a book is only as good as its editors. As a long-time publishing professional myself, I know this only too well -- most recently from sweating out a friend's publishers'-proofs-reviewing process with her after she was subjected to the last-minute dictates of an (impetuous?) editor under the influence of a zealous and persuasive in-house proofreader who had several last-minute suggestions for "improving" the book. Working at great speed under deadline pressure, my friend had to dig up and stick in several additional features, including a requested list of references and resources, with no time to be thorough or even impeccably accurate, let alone to annotate properly. Meanwhile, the crucial photos accompanying my friend's instructional manual may have received insufficient publisher-attention; at any rate, the author was distressed by some technical problems she noted in the shots that finally went to press. Unfortunately many readers may not be aware of this kind of behind-the-scenes "collaborative" process, which may detract from the writer's original vision or even compromise the final product. It is not necessarily reasonable or correct to lay the blame for any book-related issue entirely at the feet of the person whose name appears on its cover.
Regrettably, Chris Palmer's "neophyte" readers may not all be as sophisticated as we might hope: (1) able to take his specific critique in stride and protect their fingers accordingly if necessary (or at least careful to purchase the appropriate tool after researching any seeming ambiguity at, say, the most reputable Internet DIY sites), while (2) remaining eager to explore this obviously appealing and inspiring volume with its wealth of ideas and its illustrations of stunning works of art. Mr. Palmer could have provided a bit more well-deserved praise amidst the warnings he enumerated for the unwary. And I do empathize totally with Ms. Wynn, who must have been appalled and wounded by his words; God forbid I should have to confront such dire and scary corrections to anything I might personally write or publish. Still, I can see why he wrote what he wrote, and I expect his words will do more good than harm overall. I hope and trust his review will not harm sales of what has been a wonderful, even life-changing book to so many readers.
Ideally, all the rave reviews of this book will lead to brisk sales, which in turn will lead to a second edition. And ideally, the next edition will correct or clarify any problem-points relating to proper technical procedure or personal safety -- making an already-wonderful book even more valuable to accomplished, tool-saavy artists and vulnerable neophytes alike.
 Should Be Re-Titled- Altered Jewlery! January 7, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I ordered this book for visual inspiration for Altered Art projects Be-it a book or just a interesting item, the cover prompted me to buy it however i was Unpleasantly suprised when I opened it's pages to find it is a basic re-hash of not to interesting idea's or projects, i found this book dull and un-inspiring as well as poorly titled- as most of the projects are wearable altered art, like Jewelry and such- perhaps it is a good book for the novice the title is very misleading and should be re-titled to reflect the content - ALTERED JEWELRY TECHNIQUES
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