Get Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 252 Motifs from Textiles (Dover PDF

By Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson

ISBN-10: 0486275248

ISBN-13: 9780486275246

This interesting ebook is the manufactured from in depth scholarly study, its exacting illustrations according to selection examples of Mexican Indian textiles in lots of varied museums and personal collections. Incorporating summary and geometric varieties in addition to hugely stylized photographs of plants, vegetation, animals, birds, and people, the styles symbolize greater than 20 significant Mexican Indian cultures.
Among the designs are a two-faced feathered serpent from the Huichol tradition, an allover development ruled through horizontal zigzags woven through the Otomí, and a flower and leaf layout from the Tepehua. The Huasteco everyone is represented via a daring motif that includes prancing animals with furry tails; a Nahuatl layout depicts a lion with a flower in his mouth; whereas a chic curvilinear Mazatec motif gains plants, vines, and birds. different peoples whose artwork is represented comprise the Tarahumara, Tepecano, Mestizo, Zapotec, Mixteco, and Cuicatec. within the daring, startling designs originated by means of those cultures are primal hyperlinks to the imagery of alternative cultures and traditions, centuries outdated and worldwide.
Artists, designers, and craftspeople will worth this modestly priced assortment as a resource of awesome and strange royalty-free designs for proposal and useful use; somebody drawn to Mexican Indian tradition will locate it an immense reference as well.

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