Traditional Textiles of the Andes.: Life and Cloth in the Highlands - Couverture souple

Meisch, Lynn-A; Oakland Rodman, Amy; Franquemont, Ed; Blum, Margot; Arthur, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500279853 ISBN 13 : 9780500279854

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

The Andean Mountains are home to a rich heritage of textile design and weaving. In particular, cloth bas traditionally been the Most significant form of artistic and cultural expression of the Aymara and Quechua peoples of the Andes. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Traditional Textiles of the Andes features eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara and Quechua. The elaborately patterned pieces are all drawn from the remarkable and previously unpublished Jeffrey Appleby Collection and include everyday and ceremonial textiles of all types-ponchos, skirts, belts, hats, slings. The accompanying essays by Lynn A. Meisch, Amy Oakland Rodman, Ed Franquemont, Margot Blum Schevill, and Barbara Arthur address such topics as the long history of fibres, dyes, imagery and textile use in the region, and the effects of urbanization and westernization on traditional Andean weaving. Texts and photographs together reflect textile arts that are both a primary source for the study of the communities that made them and a triumph of design, colour and imagery.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500279853
• ISBN 13: 9780500279854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible