Author: Heinz Edgar KiewePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Africa: Make Them Craftsmen
Author: Heinz Edgar KiewePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
African Crafts
Author: Lynne GarnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556527487
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an overview of West African culture and provides step-by-step instructions for using simple household materials to make such traditional items as a mask, a coiled pot, block-printed and woven cloths, and a drum.
Crafting Lives
Author: Catherine W. BishirPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469608758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life. Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity.
African Crafts and Craftsmen
Author: René GardiPlay-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship
Author: William ArcherPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship" by William Archer. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship
Author: Salvatore CosentinoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110684438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In the last twenty years scholarship on late antique and early medieval Ravenna has resulted in a certain number of publications mainly focused on the fields of architecture, mosaics and archaeology. On the contrary, much less attention has been paid on labour – both manual and intellectual – as well as the structure of production and objects derived from manufacturing activities, despite the fact that Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres of the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, from ivories to marbles, as well as luxury objects, pottery, and coins. Starting from concrete typologies of hand-manufactured goods existing in the Ravennate milieu, the book aims at exploring the multifaceted traditions of late antique and early Byzantine handicraft from the fourth to the eighth century AD. Its perspective is to pay attention more on patronage, social taste, acculturation, workers and the economic industry of production which supported the demand, circulation and distribution of artefacts, than on the artistic evaluation of the objects themselves.
Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa
Author: Henry Usher HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Decorative Arts of Africa
Author: Louise E. JeffersonPublisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Author: