Oaxacan Ceramics
Title | Oaxacan Ceramics PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Wasserspring |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780811823586 |
"Though their work is informed by a shared sense of culture, place, and identity as women, each artist has her own unique style, source of inspiration, and approach to her craft. Daily life and flights of fancy, spiritual devotion and earthly concerns all find expression in these finely crafted and beautifully colored ceramic marvels, including street scenes and nativities, Virgins and Zapotec creatures, vases, plates, candleholders, and figures of Frida Kahlo."--BOOK JACKET.
Fire and Clay
Title | Fire and Clay PDF eBook |
Author | Mindling Eric |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783943514360 |
The Black Pottery of Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Title | The Black Pottery of Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Van de Velde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Indian pottery |
ISBN |
Mexican Folk Art
Title | Mexican Folk Art PDF eBook |
Author | Arden Rothstein |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
"Arden Rothstein (New York U. Psychoanalytic Institute) and daughter Anya share their love of the contemporary folk art of Oaxaca, Mexico, in this guide for beginning collectors. Ten chapters cover ceramics, textiles, woodcarving, metal work, miniatures and toys, jewelry, candles, basketry, dried flower crafts, and images from the Day of the Dead. Sample pieces by 87 artists are featured, with information on current market values included. The guide is illustrated with some 500 color photographs. Oversize: 9.5x11"." -- Publisher.
After Monte Albán
Title | After Monte Albán PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey P. Blomster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2008-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
After Monte Albán reveals the richness and interregional relevance of Postclassic transformations in the area now known as Oaxaca, which lies between Central Mexico and the Maya area and, as contributors to this volume demonstrate, achieved cultural centrality in pan-Mesoamerican networks. Large nucleated states throughout Oaxaca collapsed after 700 C.E., including the great Zapotec state centered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Monte Albán. Elite culture changed in fundamental ways as small city-states proliferated in Oaxaca, each with a new ruling dynasty required to devise novel strategies of legitimization. The vast majority of the population, though, sustained continuity in lifestyle, religion, and cosmology. Contributors synthesize these regional transformations and continuities in the lower Rio Verde Valley, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Mixteca Alta. They provide data from material culture, architecture, codices, ethnohistoric documents, and ceramics, including a revised ceramic chronology from the Late Classic to the end of the Postclassic that will be crucial to future investigations. After Monte Albán establishes Postclassic Oaxaca's central place in the study of Mesoamerican antiquity. Contributors include Jeffrey P. Blomster, Bruce E. Byland, Gerardo Gutierrez, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Michael D. Lind, Robert Markens, Cira Martínez López, Michel R. Oudijk, and Marcus Winter.
Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics
Title | Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics PDF eBook |
Author | Carla M. Sinopoli |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1991-06-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780306435751 |
More than any other category of evidence, ceramics ofters archaeologists their most abundant and potentially enlightening source of information on the past. Being made primarily of day, a relatively inexpensive material that is available in every region, ceramics became essential in virtually every society in the world during the past ten thousand years. The straightfor ward technology of preparing, forming, and firing day into hard, durable shapes has meant that societies at various levels of complexity have come to rely on it for a wide variety of tasks. Ceramic vessels quickly became essential for many household and productive tasks. Food preparation, cooking, and storage-the very basis of settled village life-could not exist as we know them without the use of ceramic vessels. Often these vessels broke into pieces, but the virtually indestructible quality of the ceramic material itself meant that these pieces would be preserved for centuries, waiting to be recovered by modem archaeologists. The ability to create ceramic material with diverse physical properties, to form vessels into so many different shapes, and to decorate them in limitless manners, led to their use in far more than utilitarian contexts. Some vessels were especially made to be used in trade, manufacturing activities, or rituals, while ceramic material was also used to make other items such as figurines, models, and architectural ornaments.
Cerámica
Title | Cerámica PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Thompson |
Publisher | Schiffer Pub Limited |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780764312489 |
The production of pottery is one of the oldest of Mexican crafts. This book displays Mexican ceramics of the twentieth century organized by geographic area, style, family, and individual artisan. Based upon an exhibition of over 1,200 pieces, each color picture is accompanied by a detailed description of the piece, including, when possible, the artist, style, place of origin, date of production, and size of the piece.