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Mexican Textiles
Mexican costumes, Mexican textiles.
Arts and Crafts of Mexico
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
The Day of the Dead
This anthology considers how the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in visual art and culture, from the traditional and iconic illustrations of Manuel Manilla and Jose Posada to the paper cuts of Aaron Velasco Pacheco, folk art of the Linares family and paintings of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. With a foreword by the ceramic artist and curator Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, this compendium also includes poems, songs and literature celebrating the festival, as well as dedicated chapters that focus on contemporary representations, such as urban art, graffiti and the street photography of Yolande Andrade.
Textiles from Mexico
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.
Fiesta
Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.
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Mask Arts of Mexico
Comprehensive and colorful celebration of masks and their creators.
The Skeleton at the Feast
In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of the Day of the Dead and its colorful present-day celebrations in Mexico and the United States.
Mexican Indian Costumes
Gives details on history, tools and techniques, variations in garments and accessories. Includes analysis of the costumes of 27 villages, and linguistic groups.
The Best Australian Stories
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
