Mexican Indian Folk Designs

Mexican Indian Folk Designs
Title Mexican Indian Folk Designs PDF eBook
Author Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 98
Release 2012-10-25
Genre History
ISBN 0486142515

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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.

Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico

Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico
Title Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico PDF eBook
Author Jorge Enciso
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 194
Release 1953-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0486200841

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Numerous primitive designs from early Mexican cultures are reproduced to demonstrate native decorative ingenuity and inspire modern artists and designers

Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book

Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book
Title Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book PDF eBook
Author Marty Noble
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 42
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780486427508

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Striking adaptations of authentic native art depict, among other subjects, a Mixtec circular design from an incised gourd rattle, religious figures from a Metepec candlestick, and images of jaguars taken from a Guerrero lacquered chest. An exciting challenge for coloring book enthusiasts, these 30 illustrations will also inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople.

Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico

Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico
Title Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico PDF eBook
Author Jorge Enciso
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 127
Release 1971-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 0486227944

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Characterizes ancient Mexican art through black-and-white reproductions of original motifs discovered in archaeological digs

Miniature Crafts and Their Makers

Miniature Crafts and Their Makers
Title Miniature Crafts and Their Makers PDF eBook
Author Katrin Flechsig
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 236
Release 2022-07-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816550077

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Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past forty years that art has become more finely tuned and has won national acceptance in a market nostalgic for an authentic Indian past. In this book, Katrin Flechsig offers the first in-depth ethnographic and historical examination of the miniature palm craft industry, taking readers behind the scenes of craft production in order to explain how and why these folk arts have undergone miniaturization over the past several decades. In describing this "Lilliputization of Mexico," she discusses the appeal of miniaturization, revealing how such factors as tourism and the construction of national identity have contributed to an ongoing demand for the tiny creations. She also contrasts the playfulness of the crafts with the often harsh economic and political realities of life in the community. Flechsig places the crafts of Chigmecatitlán within the contexts of manufacturing, local history, religion, design and technique, and selling. She tells how innovation is introduced into the craft, such as through the modification of foreign designs in response to market demands. She also offers insights into capitalist penetration of folk traditions, the marketing of folk arts, and economic changes in modern Mexico. And despite the fact that the designations "folk" and "Indian" help create a romantic fiction surrounding the craft, Flechsig dispels common misperceptions of the simplicity of this folk art by revealing the complexities involved in its creation. More than thirty illustrations depict not only finished miniatures but also the artists and their milieu. Today miniatures serve not only the tourist market; middle-class Mexicans also collect miniatures to such an extent that it has been termed a national pastime. Flechsig’s work opens up this miniature world and shows us the extent to which it has become a lasting and important facet of contemporary Mexican culture.

Textiles from Mexico

Textiles from Mexico
Title Textiles from Mexico PDF eBook
Author Chloë Sayer
Publisher British museum Press
Pages 87
Release 2002
Genre Embroidery
ISBN 9780714125626

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Mexican textiles have a vitality that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. The arts of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery are practiced in hundreds of rural communities where indigenous peoples retain distinctive clothing styles, sometimes mixing this with post-Colonial influences.

Arts and Crafts of Mexico

Arts and Crafts of Mexico
Title Arts and Crafts of Mexico PDF eBook
Author Chloe Sayer
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 1990-11
Genre Art
ISBN

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With some 160 color photographs, this volume portrays the Mexican people, their cultures, and their folk arts, including textiles, ceramics, jewelry, lacquer, masks, and toys. It includes a guide to Mexico's indigenous peoples, a map, a glossary, and a bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR