This picture book is in good condition. Hardback, comes with dust cover. No markings or highlighting, pages are very clean.

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

CLARKE, Duncan

Longmeadow Press

African Hats and Jewelry

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Review\n"An enrapturing continental survey" 
― New York Times\n"Continental in scope and rich in illustration, this volume is a tour-de-force survey of Africa's textile traditions. Readers will walk away dazzled by the artistry and with a thirst for even more information about these important artistic practices." 
― Kevin Tervala, Ph.D., Associate Curator of African and Oceanic Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art\nA landmark volume on one of the world’s major art forms, and an important influence on contemporary fashion 
The African continent is home to numerous outstanding textile traditions, many dating to antiquity and all playing a multifaceted role in their respective societies: these eye-catching fabrics proclaim wealth and status, convey symbolic meanings, and of course serve a practical function in garments both ordinary and exceptional. This magnificent book conveys the amazing diversity of African textiles, from the geometric-patterned kente cloths of Ghana, to the multicolor raffia skirts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the beaded barkcloths once reserved for Ugandan royalty. 
The authors, all leading experts in the field, examine each region of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar in turn, elucidating the aesthetic qualities, cultural significance, and production methods of the most important textile traditions. Their authoritative text is illustrated with over 300 superlative textiles from public and private collections, many reproduced as full-page plates that allow the reader to appreciate each individual fiber. 
This impressive clothbound volume will be a key reference for students and scholars, an essential sourcebook for designers, and a delight for all art lovers.

African Textiles

Arts & Photography

Moraga, Vanessa Drake

Fee, Sarah

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region of the present states of Utah and Nevada and the mountainous area of the northwest United States and southern British Columbia in Canada.

Native Tribes of the Great Basin and Plateau (Native Tribes of North America)

JOHNSON, MICHAEL

Children's Books

Gareth Stevens Pub.

An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region along the south Atlantic coast of the United States, around the Gulf of Mexico, and west to the Mississippi River.

Native Tribes of the Southeast (Native Tribes of North America)

Biographies

An in-depth appreciation of the textiles of Africa, past and present. Profusely illustrated with many beautiful photographs. It is worth noting that this is a huge book, 10 1/2" x 14 1/2", giving new meaning to the term "coffee table book".

Art of African Textiles

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Thunder Bay Pr

Reflecting the vibrancy of their landscapes and the richness of their flora and fauna, the cultures and arts of Africa are marked by an appreciation of color that still pervades much of everyday life. The Dinka of southern Sudan draw on the subtle shades and patterns found on the prize cattle they herd. The Basotho women punctuate the bleak landscape of the veldt country with their vivid murals, painted to invoke the renewing rains. African perspectives on color and the meanings of colors are explored and illustrated in Colors of Africa through accounts of the natural world, beads and jewelry, buildings and murals, textiles and dress, body painting and contemporary fashion. Dr. Duncan Clarke also documents the rich folk tradition of weaving and textiles in The Art of African Textiles (ISBN 1-57145-132-3).

Colors of Africa

The famous call of Emma Lazarus to the Old World to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" led approximately 35 million immigrants to America between 1800 and 1921. Indeed, the unique story of America is that of the interaction of the native peoples with wave upon wave of people emigrating from their homelands, including, of course, the enslavement and forced movement of millions of Africans. Chapter by chapter the book chronicles the influx of whole populations into the United States, form the earliest European settlers of the 17th century to the Asian immigration of the 20th. The tales of Chinese, Italian, Irish, Jewish, African, English, German, and Scandinavian new comers are all made more poignant by the inclusion of evocative archival photographs from the period. A New World charts the extraordinary development of a country built by an unprecedented number of different peoples.

A New World: The History of Immigration to the United States

History

Presman, Elkan

Small, Stephen

Americas

History of American Slavery

World Pubns

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