Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archive)

This is a sourcebook and treasury of unique designs, in a collection never published beforeâ€”300 original motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs, and othersâ€”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, fretsâ€”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 desiredâ€”in advertising, book design, packages, wrappings, labels, bookplates, textiles, wallpapers, leather craft, woodwork, jewelry, metalcraftâ€”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, TeotihuacÃ¡n, and Tuxtla GutiÃ©rrez, and the collections of Diego Rivera, William Spratling, Roberto Montenegro, and others.
Country USA
Brand Dover Publications
Manufacturer Dover Publications
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 1971-06-01
UnitCount 1
UPCs 800759227945
EANs 9780486227948

Country	USA
Brand	Dover Publications
Manufacturer	Dover Publications
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	1971-06-01
UnitCount	1
UPCs	800759227945
EANs	9780486227948

Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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