The Essential Art of African Textiles
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 1588392937
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 1588392937
Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811841669
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
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588343804
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 : Eli Leon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
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 : Roy Sieber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253216893
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.
Author : Judith Perani
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
Special features of this book: follows a geographical organization across the continent; each chapter is reader friendly with clear, accessible sub-headings; represents important religious and utilitarian art traditions from the Sahara desert, West Africa, Central Africa, Northeast Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa; gives special attention to the themes of gender, power, and life cycle rituals, which frequently intersect with one another to form an understanding of the arts of Africa; includes figurative sculpture, masquerades, architecture, textiles, dress, ceramics, wall painting, and leatherwork traditions; includes selected examples of the earliest known documented art works as well as contemporary art of each geographical region; includes an up-to-date bibliography, incorporating recent published field research for each chapter; and features 369 black and white illustrations, 16 colored plates, maps, and a time line.
Author : Shirley Friedland
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
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 : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588390748
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 : Leonard Kahan
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Explores the power and potency of surfaces in African sculpture