African Designs from Traditional Sources
Title | African Designs from Traditional Sources PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Williams |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1971-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0486227529 |
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
African Designs from Traditional Sources
Title | African Designs from Traditional Sources PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Williams (grafika użytkowa) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1971 |
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Traditional African Designs
Title | Traditional African Designs PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Mirow |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486296229 |
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.
African Textiles Today
Title | African Textiles Today PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Spring |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2012-10-09 |
Genre | 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.
African Textiles
Title | African Textiles PDF eBook |
Author | John Gillow |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2003-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0811841669 |
Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
African Textiles and Decorative Arts
Title | African Textiles and Decorative Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Sieber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1972 |
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African Architecture
Title | African Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Nnamdi Elleh |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Provides an extraordinary account of the evolution, transformation and development of architecture across this continent. It is examined and evaluated from a wide range of ethnic, climatic, political economic and religious factors.