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| Author | : George Everett Shaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Indian art |
| ISBN | : 9780934324335 |
From the author of the award-winning Art of Grace and Passion comes this spotlight on North American artisanship between 200 BC and the early 1900s. The masterworks featured here range from clothing, accessories, and ceremonial and hunting gear to blankets, cradles, storage vessels, and utensils. Each was crafted of such diverse materials as quills, ivory, hide, wood, fibers, stone, clay, and even glass beads imported by European traders. George Everett Shaw, Steven C. Brown, Benson L. Lanford, and Bill Mercer examine how American Indians' existence developed around the challenges and benefits of the climate, terrain, flora, and fauna of their locales. Their art objects embody the spiritual devotion--inseparable from their relationship with the natural world--that even now shapes their lives. Whether decorated with abstract patterns or with representations of humans and animals, such pieces were vehicles for passing down beliefs and customs before written languages existed. Thus we can appreciate them not only for their beauty and the skill and ingenuity of their makers but also in the context of the cultures from which they sprang.
| Author | : Nico de Jonge |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2017-02-28 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780804848589 |
Lavish photography and groundbreaking new texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia and East Timor. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia. Beautiful photography and essays by distinguished international scholars unlock the magic of the island cultures of this region. Leading cultural anthropologist Dr. Reimar Schefold introduces these texts, which investigate various indigenous art forms from a fresh art-historical perspective. They describe the contexts, purposes, and aesthetic influences of a range of objects, from intricately woven sacred and ceremonial textiles to carved ancestor figures. Also featured are gold and metalwork designs as well as weaponry and jewelry, most dating back more than a hundred years. A 19th-century mouth mask in the collection, from the Leti Islands, is one of the only four known to be in existence. This wooden mask, carved in the shape of a rooster's head, was used in ritual dances. Other spectacular examples from the collection likewise reflect the beliefs and practices of these island peoples.
| Author | : Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Published in association with the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum, Seattle, Washington.
| Author | : Sian Jay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : M. Jane Young |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Indian art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Harriet Rohmer |
| Publisher | : Children's Book Press |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 9780892391585 |
Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present paintings with descriptions of ancestors or other sources of inspiration that have inspired them.
| Author | : William A. Fagaly |
| Publisher | : Scala Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781857596984 |
First comprehensive book on the extraordinary collection of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, considered one of the best in the United States.
| Author | : Edna G. Bay |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Altars, Fon |
| ISBN | : 0252032551 |
A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form
| Author | : Lesley Pullen |
| Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9814881856 |
There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and museums in Indonesia and worldwide. The equatorial climate of Java has precluded any textiles from this period surviving. Therefore this book argues the textiles represented on these sculptures offer a unique insight into the patterned splendour of the textiles in circulation during this period. This volume contributes to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with the textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.
| Author | : Maarten Jansen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 645 |
| Release | : 2017-03-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004340521 |
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.
