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Author : Geoffrey Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486227528
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
Author : Gregory Mirow
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486296227
Over 200 pieces of clip art from various countries in Africa, including representations of people, animals, designs, borders, plants and jewelery. A resource for graphic design and collage, or as a source of jewelry design.
Author : Chris Spring
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588343802
African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.
Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Textile crafts
ISBN : 0500511446
This is an authoritative survey of textile arts unique and collectible rugs, tapestries, garments, and more from all parts of Africa. Five sections detail the textile history and traditions of west, north, east, central, and southern Africa, examining materials, dyes, decorations, patterns, and techniques.
Author : Heike Owusu
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1402746229
From masks to the symbolic script of the Ashanti, symbols play an important role in all aspects of African life. These sacred items come in a breathtaking array of styles, and here, divided into six areas of cultural similarity, are some of the most beautiful, along with explanations of their meanings. Demons, for most Africans, are responsible for justice and retribution: the superb demon mask shown depicts Kponingo, who belongs to the mythical world of the Senufo in the Ivory Coast. A calabash with the beak of a hornbill, adorned with cowrie shells and made by medicine men, is a typical instrument of witchcraft. Other fascinating symbols include sculptures, cave paintings, status symbols, and art for everyday use.
Author : Rebecca Jewell
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X002576998
British Museum Pattern Books reproduce in line drawings the rich variety of patterns and designs which decorate art and artefacts in the British Museum and elsewhere.
Author : Runette Kruger,Rudi de Lange,Ingrid Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527523623
This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Author : Gilbert A. Clark,Enid D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815624018
Author : Katsushika Hokusai
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486315997
Color reprint of Hokusai's masterpiece, Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, plus the artist's later black-and-white series, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. A must for all lovers of Japanese art.
Author : Carrie A. Lyford
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486420899
In-depth guide to ancient Native American crafts focuses on the techniques of the western Sioux. Explanations of techniques involved in quillwork, including dyeing and sewing, beadwork methods. More than 80 photographs and drawings depict handsome motifs on articles of clothing including vests, shirts, robes, dresses, leggings, moccasins, blankets, saddlebags, and shields.
Author : Alisa LaGamma,Christine Giuntini,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 9781588392930
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004655997
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588390745
The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Julie Booth
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781627883948
You don't have to be a fashion designer to create your own amazing fabrics! Fabric Printing at Home will show you how to create your own fabric prints using all of the traditional techniques, as well as techniques using regular everyday things you find around your kitchen! With tons of color photos, step-by-step instructions, and helpful hints, you will be crafting your very own fabric designs in no time! Learn to make print blocks, rubbing plates, stencils, fabric resists, and colorants from a wide range kitchen materials. Learn how your favorite fruits and veggies will add the perfect shapes and textures to your fabrics, or how to use recycled materials for surface design. Before you know it, you'll be crafting beautiful fabrics worthy of runways from common materials in your kitchen!
Author : Charles Joyner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053900
Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this community, and many others like it, enslaved people created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. Joyner recovers an entire lost society and way of life from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from the folklore and oral history of the enslaved Americans. His classic reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people. This anniversary edition of Joyner's landmark study includes a new introduction in which the author recounts his process of writing the book, reflects on its critical and popular reception, and surveys the past three decades of scholarship on the history of enslaved people in the United States.
