Pre-Columbian Design

Автор: Grafton Carol Belanger
Название: Pre-Columbian Mexican Designs CD-ROM and Book
ISBN: 0486998657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486998657
Издательство: Dover
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Описание: As stories told through pictures, the illustrative manuscripts created by Mexico's ancient Indians -- magnificent "codices" -- are supremely rich in history and folk art. Alive with visual renderings of kings, warriors, gods, ceremonial symbols, sacred animals, and everyday objects, this dazzling collection of 366 color and black-and-white designs, expertly selected from original centuries-old codices, communicates a bygone world of awe-inspiring vision. Rich with mystical flavor, and painstakingly reproduced in a multimedia format, this superb collection will enchant artists, craftspeople, and history enthusiasts alike.

Автор: Enciso, Jorge
Название: Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico
ISBN: 0486227944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486227948
Издательство: Dover
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Описание: This is a sourcebook and treasury of unique designs, in a collection never published before--300 original motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs, and others--all ready for use by the artist, illustrator, designer, hobbyist, and handicrafter. As an inexpensive source of unusual themes, this volume is unparalleled.
The designs were found on malacates, small clay spindle weights or whorls made by the pre-Conquest peoples of Mexico and discovered in archeological digs. The unknown artists showed great imagination and originality in decorating the essentially round objects, each with its hole at center. In the large outer circles appear motifs of the humanlike deities, animals both real and fantastic, reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets--employed with all the boldness and fanciful ideas characteristic of pre-Columbian art.
Rendered in sharp black-and-white, the designs may be reproduced, enlarged, reduced, or altered at will. Wherever a novel, strong, rhythmic effect is desired--in advertising, book design, packages, wrappings, labels, bookplates, textiles, wallpapers, leather craft, woodwork, jewelry, metalcraft--these motifs will serve beautifully.
The designs were selected by Jorge Enciso, an outstanding figure in the cultural life of Mexico, from malacates in the archeological museums of Mexico City, Teotihuacan, and Tuxtla Gutierrez, and the collections of Diego Rivera, William Spratling, Roberto Montenegro, and others.