Popular Arts Of Mexico 1850 1950

One hundred years worth of quality Mexican popular art, including pottery, clay figures, marionettes, straw mosaics, Talavera, clay banks, coconut banks, laquerware, wood panels and rugs, from 1850-1950, is covered here. Detailed information about artists, styles and techniques are provided along with collecting hints in every chapter.

Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.

By examining both historic and contemporary examples, the editors move discussion of the enameled earthenware known as mayolica beyond its stylistic merits in order to understand it in historic and cultural context. It places the ceramics in history and daily life, illustrating their place in trade and economics.

This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.

Deals with the historical aspects of Mexican culture. The text is stimulating & highly informative. Excellent for both the classroom as well as individual reading.

The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them.This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges and libraries, is an annotated bibliography of approximately 1,400 recommended books published from 1986 through 2000 in the field of Latin American studies. It is divided into chapters that deal with reference works, descriptive accounts and travel guides, the humanities, language and literature, the social sciences, and science and technology. For the purposes of this book, Latin America is defined as all geographic locations south of the Rio Grande. While these are chiefly Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions, works about French, English, and Dutch speaking areas are also included. The literary works of authors living abroad are included if they are considered quintessentially Latin American. Periodicals, children's literature, audio-visual resources, and works about the Hispanic and Latino experience in the United States are not included. The majority of the works presented here were selected based on reviews from Booklist, Choice, Hispanic American Historical Review, Library Journal, Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly; also consulted were the catalogs of major university presses that focus on Latin American studies.

Preface -- Introduction -- How the Indian artist craftsman lives and works -- Popular art states, markets and stores -- Regional map -- Weaving in wool and cotton. Sarapes ; Hand-woven cloth ; Sashes ; Wool bags ; Rebozos -- Weaving in reed, palm and fibre. Sombreros ; Baskets ; Fibre -- Embroidery, drawnwork, crocheting, knitting, beading -- Regional dress. Women ; Men ; Dance, play and carnival -- Pottery. Common ; State of Mexico ; Puebla ; Oaxaca ; Guanajuato ; Aguas calientes and San Luis Potosi ; Guerrero ; Michoacán ; Jalisco ; Ritual -- Handbiown glass. Gold and silver ; Gold jewelry ; Silver objects ; Silver jewelry -- Iron, steel, copper, tin -- Leather work -- Carving in stone, onyx, horn, shell, wood. Iron ; Stone and onyx ; Horn ; Shell ; Wood -- Feathers, straw, horsehair -- Lacquer. Michoacán ; Olinalá -- Masks -- Musical instruments -- Votive offerings and church decorations. Candlemaking ; Flowers and seeds ; China and papier-maché ; Religious amulets ; Retablos ; Silver milagros -- Fireworks -- Toys -- Kitchens, popular dishes, sweets, drinks. Popular dishes ; Sweets ; Drinks -- Houses, furniture, popular. painting. Furniture ; Decorative painting,

William Spratling revolutionized silver jewellery design in Mexico. Arriving in Taxco in 1929, by 1940 he had over 100 silversmiths producing his enormously popular silver creations. Out of Spratling's workshop emerged many of Mexico's finest silver designers.