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African Textiles Today
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This book is ideal for readers interested in African culture, textile arts, and visual storytelling, as well as artists, historians, and those passionate about cultural heritage and contemporary African art.
African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. Accompanied by 200 stunning illustrations revealing the rich variety of textile traditions throughout Africa, this new work showcases some of the world's finest examples of textile arts.
African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. Accompanied by 200 stunning illustrations revealing the rich variety of textile traditions throughout Africa, this new work showcases some of the world's finest examples of textile arts.
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A fascinating insight into the living history of Africa. African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator.
In Africa, cloth is used to commemorate important events, people or political struggles that in other parts of the world might be recorded in writing, or marked by a plaque or monument.
This beautifully illustrated book deciphers these hidden stories, whilst also revealing the relevance of African textiles today, exploring how the dynamic traditions in African cloth-making have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers.
Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity, showing how ideas, techniques, materials and markets have adapted and flourished.
Accompanied by 200 stunning illustrations revealing the rich variety of textile traditions throughout Africa, this new work showcases some of the world's finest examples of textile arts.
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ISBN: 9780714115597
Publisher: British Museum Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 October 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Museum Press
Illustration: With over 230 colour images; 230 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 240.0mm
Height: 270.0mm
Weight: 1650g
Pages: 256
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Chris Spring is curator of the contemporary African art and the eastern and southern African collection at the British Museum.
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