{"product_id":"wild-tinkls-judith-and-viktor-tinkls-creative-world-9780228106333","title":"Wild Tinkls: Judith and Viktor Tinkl's Creative World","description":"\u003cp\u003e In 1965, Viktor Tinkl, a sculptor and later a teacher at Ontario College of Art, bought a schoolhouse in the farmland near Vallentyne, Ontario. Judith Wild joined him a few months later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Their combined vision created the Tinkl's spectacular home, galleries and sculpture gardens. Over 60 years, their work -- sculpture in found materials for Viktor, fabric and geometry for Judith -- has evolved into \"a riot of Seussical cement\" and \"mosaics in fabric.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Visiting their environment and living with their artwork is a thrill that thousands have enjoyed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is a celebration of Judith Wild Tinkl's fibre art, Viktor's imaginative people, animals and kinetic sculptures, and the monumental concrete sculptures, sluices and decorations that fill acres of their home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is also a history of 60 years of shared life and artistic achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Viktor has spent the 60 years, after working with Inuit printmakers in Northern Quebec, embarking on a life of making sculptures from everyday objects: enormous figures from cement and glass that decorate their property, embossed sheet metal doors and walls, kinetic sculptures that whirr and clank, and smaller pieces (like his 40th birthday image) from scraps of wood and metal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He built all of the structures on the property, and used the leftover cement to make fanciful faces, tableaus and creatures that are full of the juice of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Judith Wild Tinkl is fascinated by geometry, and her quilts and fabric art depict colors that seem to move, triangular forms that merge into large landscapes, and combinations of fabric and beads and buttons that depict a nightscape of galaxies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is limited to 1000 copies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a two-sided (or upside-down) book, with about half devoted to each of the Wild Tinkls. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Firefly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228106333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Tom Smart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53195259576501,"sku":"9780228106333","price":80.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780228106333.jpg?v=1788273568","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wild-tinkls-judith-and-viktor-tinkls-creative-world-9780228106333","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}