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Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811841669
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book African Textiles written by John Gillow and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
Author : Chris Spring
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343804
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book African Textiles Today written by Chris Spring and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Picton
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780853317968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Art of African Textiles written by John Picton and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive look at the textiles of contemporary Africa. It includes essays on the hand-woven textiles of West Africa, applique and embroidery, the impact of European trade and the use of textiles as an art form.'
Author : Roy Sieber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book African Textiles and Decorative Arts written by Roy Sieber and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392937
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Essential Art of African Textiles written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernhard Gardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783856164843
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Woven Beauty written by Bernhard Gardi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The richly illustrated and expertly designed publication accompanying the exhibition "Woven Beauty -- The Art of West African Textiles" at the Museum der Kulturen Basel offers an impressive overview of West African textile culture, highlighting Mali, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Editor Bernhard Gardi was a member of the Boser-Gardi expedition that travelled across West Africa thirty-five years ago. The publication focuses on the collection assembled in the course of this journey. Well-informed contributions by renowned anthropologists provide valuable insight into an important but often neglected aspect of African art history."--Publisher's website.
Author : SPRING CHRISTOPHER
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book NORTH AFRICAN TEXTILES PB written by SPRING CHRISTOPHER and published by Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North African Textiles celebrates a living tradition whose dynamism is apparent in the continued flourishing of old techniques and styles, whilst readily adapting to new materials and markets. The authors provide a much needed survey of a neglected subject and offer valuable new insights into the significance of textiles in the understanding of North African cultural tradition as a whole.
Author : Anne-Marie Bouttiaux
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Costumes and Textiles written by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works presented exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups. Whether the materials used are wool, cotton, silk, raffia, or bark, the patterns the weavers produce are predominantly geometric and abstract, but highly stylized figurative motifs are also found. The designs frequently illustrate excerpts from historical or mythical stories. The book presents a breathtaking variety of costumes, textiles, and accessories used for everyday wear and for special celebrations, and explores the different techniques, influences, and meanings behind these colorful works of art. The essays describe the history of the development of these techniques and the richness of the symbolism in this form of cultural heritage. The superb photography showcases the splendor of these intricate and exquisite textiles.
Author : Claire Polakoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710009081
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques written by Claire Polakoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Picton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367154844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (548 download)
Download or read book African Textiles written by J. Picton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of African textiles - their design, manufacture, and use - as part of African life, art, and culture.
Author : Susan Cooksey
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Africa Interweave written by Susan Cooksey and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 8-May 8, 2011.
Author : John Gillow
Publisher : British museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa written by John Gillow and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a visual feast, illustrating the richness and diversity of the African textile tradition, and providing designers at all levels with inspiration for their own work. Over 30 textiles from The British Museum's renowned collection are explored in detail: magnificent blue-and-white, indigo-resist-dyed cloths from West Africa; multi-coloured, tie-dyed and woven North African textiles; "mud cloths" from Mali; the unique wrap-striped weaves and ikats from Madagascar; "adinkra" block-print and painted "caligraphy" cloths from Ghana; and the "adire" cloths from Yorubaland
Author : Colleen E. Kriger
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759114234
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Cloth in West African History written by Colleen E. Kriger and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with Muslim societies and with Europe. Cloth in West African History thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region and on the local, regional, and global processes that shaped it. A variety of readers will find its account and insights into the African past and culture valuable, and will appreciate the connections made between the local concerns of small-scale weavers in African villages, the emergence of an indigenous textile industry, and its integration into international networks.
Author : Eli Leon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Accidentally on Purpose written by Eli Leon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exuberantly illustrated book celebrates the sophistication, vivacity, and significance of improvisational African-Aemrican quilts, both as artistic achievements and as expressions of African-American traditions. The knowledge, attitudes, and values carried across the Atlantic by enslaved Africans appear to have informed a quiltmaking tradition so powerful that, to this day, it preserves its identity in a special province of African-American quilts. Such "Afro-traditional" quilts are made by people who have no formal art training and who usually do not consider themselves artists; they learned their craft and absorbed its aesthetics by watching and helping their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who, in turn, learned form previous generations. The resulting--often highly idiosyncratic--quilts call out to be seen as the works of art that they are. The brilliance of this work must be partially credited to a tradition which encourages individual expression and provides a context in which the talents of individual artists can flourish. Improvisation, pervasive in black African art and familiar as a basic element of many African-American musical forms, is a vital force in this tradition. The artists maintain a generous attitude toward the accidental, embracing innovations that originate beyond the conscious domain. they use approximate measurement and "flexible patterning," in which the design, conceived of as a an invitation to variation, will not repeat, but will materialize in a sequence of visual elaborations. Afro-traditional attitudes and methods are antithetical to the standard American quiltmaking tradition--practiced by both whites and blacks--in which great value is placed on precise measurement and exact pattern replication. Instead they bear a keen likeness to the improvisatory practices of the textile-makers of Kongo and West Africa, regions from which American slaves were taken. These antipathies and affinities suggest an enduring African influence on the Afro-traditional quilt.
Author : Shirley Friedland
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book African Fabric Design written by Shirley Friedland and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial survey of African fabric prints includes contemporary bold two- and three-color designs, stripes, grids, and geometrics arranged with a focus on design, color, and pattern. Shown are commercially-made adaptations of traditional African designs in cotton, rayon, wool, synthetics, metallics and surface embellishment. The photographs are lively references and inspiration to artists and designers of fashion and fabrics.
Author : Shirley Friedland
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book African Prints written by Shirley Friedland and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial survey of printed fabrics - includes abstract and geometric, floral and animal prints. There is a companion volume entitled "African Fabric Design."
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253216893
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Fashioning Africa written by Jean Allman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. In 'Fashioning Africa' an international group of anthropologists, historians and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic.
