Author: Marshall H. Saville
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368263005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1925.
The Wood-Carver ́s Art in Ancient Mexico
Author: Marshall H. Saville
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368263005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1925.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368263005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1925.
The Wood-carver's Art in Ancient Mexico
Author: Marshall Howard Saville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian wood-carving
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian wood-carving
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Crafting Tradition
Author: Michael Chibnik
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michael Chibnik offers the first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations. Drawing on interviews he conducted in the carving communities and among wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, he follows the entire production and consumption cycle, from the harvesting of copal wood to the final purchase of the finished piece. Along the way, he describes how and why this "invented tradition" has been promoted as a "Zapotec Indian" craft and explores its similarities with other local crafts with longer histories. He also fully discusses the effects on local communities of participating in the global market, concluding that the trade in Oaxacan wood carvings is an almost paradigmatic case study of globalization.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michael Chibnik offers the first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations. Drawing on interviews he conducted in the carving communities and among wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, he follows the entire production and consumption cycle, from the harvesting of copal wood to the final purchase of the finished piece. Along the way, he describes how and why this "invented tradition" has been promoted as a "Zapotec Indian" craft and explores its similarities with other local crafts with longer histories. He also fully discusses the effects on local communities of participating in the global market, concluding that the trade in Oaxacan wood carvings is an almost paradigmatic case study of globalization.
Oaxacan Woodcarving
Author: Shepard Barbash
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811802505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Examines the work of traditional Mexican woodcarvers
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811802505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Examines the work of traditional Mexican woodcarvers
The Value of Aesthetics
Author: Alanna Cant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477318801
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in the second half of the twentieth century and has always been done for the commercial market. In The Value of Aesthetics, Alanna Cant explores how one family’s workshop in the village of San Martín Tilcajete has become the most critically and economically successful, surpassing those of neighbors who use similar materials and techniques. The dominance of this family is tied to their ability to produce a new aesthetic that appeals to three key “economies of culture”: the tourist market for souvenirs, the national market for traditional Mexican artesanías, and the international market for indigenous art. Offering a new analytical model by which anthropologists can approach visual aesthetics and conceptualize the power of artworks as socially active objects, The Value of Aesthetics shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships. By investigating the links between aesthetics and issues of production, authorship, ownership, and identity, Cant shows aesthetic change to be a process that ultimately repackages everyday life into commodified objects in Oaxaca.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477318801
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in the second half of the twentieth century and has always been done for the commercial market. In The Value of Aesthetics, Alanna Cant explores how one family’s workshop in the village of San Martín Tilcajete has become the most critically and economically successful, surpassing those of neighbors who use similar materials and techniques. The dominance of this family is tied to their ability to produce a new aesthetic that appeals to three key “economies of culture”: the tourist market for souvenirs, the national market for traditional Mexican artesanías, and the international market for indigenous art. Offering a new analytical model by which anthropologists can approach visual aesthetics and conceptualize the power of artworks as socially active objects, The Value of Aesthetics shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships. By investigating the links between aesthetics and issues of production, authorship, ownership, and identity, Cant shows aesthetic change to be a process that ultimately repackages everyday life into commodified objects in Oaxaca.
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art
Author: Fernandex De Calderon Candida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Profiles 180 Mexican folk artists, profiling the works they have created out of clay, vegetable fibers, wood, metal, textiles, and stone which represent many different craft traditions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Profiles 180 Mexican folk artists, profiling the works they have created out of clay, vegetable fibers, wood, metal, textiles, and stone which represent many different craft traditions.
Dream Carver
Author: Diana Cohn
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811812443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In this story, inspired by the real life of Oaxacan woodcarver Manuel Jimenez, a young boy, dreams of colorful, exotic animals that he will one day carve in wood.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811812443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In this story, inspired by the real life of Oaxacan woodcarver Manuel Jimenez, a young boy, dreams of colorful, exotic animals that he will one day carve in wood.
Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Author: Marshall Howard Saville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuegians
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuegians
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Contributions from the Heye Museum
Author: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description