Author: Gregory Mirow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486296229
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Over 200 pieces of clip art from various countries in Africa, including representations of people, animals, designs, borders, plants and jewelery. A resource for graphic design and collage, or as a source of jewelry design.
African Designs from Traditional Sources
Author: Geoffrey Williams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486227529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486227529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
Creative Haven African Glamour Coloring Book
Author: Marjorie Sarnat
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486821641
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Classic African-inspired images feature silhouetted figures in head wraps and flowing gowns decorated with patterns based on traditional African arts and crafts designs. Background elements include animals, plants, and fanciful ornaments.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486821641
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Classic African-inspired images feature silhouetted figures in head wraps and flowing gowns decorated with patterns based on traditional African arts and crafts designs. Background elements include animals, plants, and fanciful ornaments.
Aso Ebi
Author: Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472128663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472128663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.
African Designs Coloring Book
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486430379
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Thirty large, ready-to-color illustrations, all adapted from traditional African designs, reflect the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Carefully rendered from authentic artifacts are a Moorish textile pattern, an Ashanti carved door panel, an antelope-shaped wooden headdress from Mali, an Ethiopian cross, and other motifs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486430379
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Thirty large, ready-to-color illustrations, all adapted from traditional African designs, reflect the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Carefully rendered from authentic artifacts are a Moorish textile pattern, an Ashanti carved door panel, an antelope-shaped wooden headdress from Mali, an Ethiopian cross, and other motifs.
African Fashion, Global Style
Author: Victoria L. Rovine
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253014131
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253014131
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.
A Print for Ami
Author: Vickie Remoe
Publisher: Pikin Books
ISBN: 9780578904405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Ami is finally getting a print dress. Her print will be tailor-made by Sisi Bisi, Freetown's finest seamstress and fashion designer. Join Ami and her mother Titi as they visit Sisi Bisi at Kabaslot Designs. A Print for Ami is part of an early reader series that celebrates African culture while helping children ages 3-6 learn phonics. Each page has simple short vowel sounds to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Practice short vowel sound "i" with A Print for Ami.
Publisher: Pikin Books
ISBN: 9780578904405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Ami is finally getting a print dress. Her print will be tailor-made by Sisi Bisi, Freetown's finest seamstress and fashion designer. Join Ami and her mother Titi as they visit Sisi Bisi at Kabaslot Designs. A Print for Ami is part of an early reader series that celebrates African culture while helping children ages 3-6 learn phonics. Each page has simple short vowel sounds to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Practice short vowel sound "i" with A Print for Ami.
Contemporary Design Africa
Author: Tapiwa Matsinde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"Contemporary African Design offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors." --Publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"Contemporary African Design offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors." --Publisher.
The Spirit of African Design
Author: Sharne Algotsson
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home