Author: Jorge Enciso
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486200841
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Numerous primitive designs from early Mexican cultures are reproduced to demonstrate native decorative ingenuity and inspire modern artists and designers
Author: Jorge Enciso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780844606132
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jorge Enciso
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486227944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Characterizes ancient Mexican art through black-and-white reproductions of original motifs discovered in archaeological digs
Author: Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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This fascinating book is the product of intensive scholarly research, its exacting illustrations based on choice examples of Mexican Indian textiles in many different museums and private collections. Incorporating abstract and geometric forms as well as highly stylized images of flowers, plants, animals, birds, and humans, the patterns represent more than 20 major Mexican Indian cultures. Among the designs are a two-faced feathered serpent from the Huichol culture, an allover pattern dominated by horizontal zigzags woven by the Otomí, and a flower and leaf design from the Tepehua. The Huasteco people are represented by a bold motif featuring prancing animals with bushy tails; a Nahuatl design depicts a lion with a flower in his mouth; while an elegant curvilinear Mazatec motif features flowers, vines, and birds. Other peoples whose art is represented include the Tarahumara, Tepecano, Mestizo, Zapotec, Mixteco, and Cuicatec. In the bold, startling designs originated by these cultures are primal links to the imagery of other cultures and traditions, centuries old and worldwide. Artists, designers, and craftspeople will value this modestly priced collection as a source of striking and unusual royalty-free designs for inspiration and practical use; anyone interested in Mexican Indian culture will find it an important reference as well.
Author: Wilson G. Turner
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486443388
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Rich in mythology and art, the Aztec civilization dominated central Mexico during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. This handsome volume contains 42 pages of authentic Aztec designs derived from ceramics, statues, altars, shields, books, and other priceless artifacts. Gods, rulers, warriors, slaves, animals, and activities both secular and sacred are brilliantly rendered by Wilson G. Turner, a skilled artist/archaeologist and a specialist in pre-Columbian archaeology. Brief captions identify each image. Artists, designers, and illustrators will find in Aztec Designs a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a myriad of projects. Colorists will enjoy adding their own conceptions of color to these ancient motifs.
Author: Wilson G. Turner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486467791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Thirty accurate depictions of traditional designs re-create the glorious art of an ancient culture. Based on authentic ceramics, statues, and other artifacts, the images portray gods, kings, warriors, animals, and rituals.
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486498492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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A treasury of hard-to-find Inca artwork, this compilation features hundreds of striking designs. The images are drawn from the collections of a 19th-century anthropologist whose expeditions to Peru yielded a remarkable store of artifacts that reside today in museums throughout Germany. Designs, paintings, and relief representations depict ancient people, animals, and rituals. Reprint of selections from Ancient Peruvian Art, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1902–03.
Author: Gregory Mirow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486296229
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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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: Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.
Author: Frederick W. Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Indians of ancient Ecuador decorated their clay spindles and beads with brilliantly realized images, many of which were drawn from their everyday lives. This collection includes 282 of these pre-Columbian designs (500–1500 a.d.), among them rich representations of people, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, plants, heads, geometric designs and more.
