Author: Geoffrey Williams Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486227529 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs
Author: Gregory Mirow Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486296229 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 50
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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.
Author: Tapiwa Matsinde Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art, Modern Languages : en Pages : 201
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"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.
Author: Marjorie Sarnat Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486821641 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 37
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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.
Author: Chris Spring Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1588343804 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 259
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African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.
Author: Okechukwu Charles Nwafor Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472128663 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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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.
Author: Vickie Remoe Publisher: Pikin Books ISBN: 9780578904405 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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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.
Author: Yuko Green Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486408101 Category : Costume Languages : en Pages : 0
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Accurately rendered collection of 29 authentic costumes and accessories for two dolls. Loose-flowing agbada gown for a Yoruba man, animal skins for a Luo warrior from Kenya, simply draped robes and striped shawls for a Masai man and woman, and more, plus fanciful headdresses, shields, drums, masks, and other tribal artifacts.
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