Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 252 Motifs from Textiles
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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.
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Mexican Indian Folk Designs - Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson
DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES
MICROSCOPIC ART FORMS FROM THE PLANT WORLD, R. Anheisser. (0-486-46013-4)
SNOW CRYSTALS, W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys. (0-486-20287-9)
BESLER’S BOOK OF FLOWERS AND PLANTS: 73 FULL-COLOR PLATES FROM HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS, 1613, Basilius Besler. (0-486-46005-3)
PLANTS AND FLOWERS: 1761 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, Edited by Alan E. Bessette and William K. Chapman. (0-486-26957-4)
NATURAL ART FORMS, Karl Blossfeldt. (0-486-40003-4)
ART FORMS IN THE PLANT WORLD: 120 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, Karl Blossfeldt. (0-486-24990-5)
101 DOG ILLUSTRATIONS: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF CHAMPIONSHIP BREEDS, Gladys Emerson Cook. (0-486-45438-X)
3,800 EARLY ADVERTISING CUTS, Deberny Type Foundry. (0-486-26658-3)
100 JAPANESE STENCIL DESIGNS, Edited by Friedrich Deneken. (0-486-44724-3)
ART NOUVEAU STENCIL DESIGNS, A. Desaint. (0-486-45426-6)
FULL-COLOR JAPANESE DESIGNS AND MOTIFS, Dover. (0-486-44891-6)
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK KIMONO DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, Dover. (0-486-45602-1)
RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CEILING MASTERPIECES, Dover. (0-486-46529-2)
HISTORIC ORNAMENT AND DESIGN IN FULL COLOR: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE, Edited by Giulio Ferrari. (0-486-45275-1)
150 FULL-COLOR ART NOUVEAU PATTERNS AND DESIGNS, Friedrich Wolfrum and Co. (0-486-44511-9)
TREASURY OF FLOWER DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS, EMBROIDERERS AND CRAFTSMEN, Susan Gaber. (0-486-24096-7)
SILHOUETTES: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF VARIED ILLUSTRATIONS, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-23781-8)
400 TRADITIONAL TILE DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-26952-3)
BIG BOOK OF SILHOUETTES, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-40701-2)
361 Full-Color ALLOVER PATTERNS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-40268-1)
SHOES, HATS AND FASHION ACCESSORIES: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE, 1850-1940, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-40103-0)
381 OLD-FASHIONED HOLIDAY