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Arts and Crafts of Morocco
James F. Jereb
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Description for Arts and Crafts of Morocco
Paperback. Demonstrates the strengths of Moroccos crafts a centuries-long tradition which intermingles influences from both Black Africa and Islam. This book examines vibrantly coloured textiles, jewelry, leather, wood and metalwork and an enormous variety of pottery and ceramics. Series: Arts & Crafts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 200 illustrations, 151 in colour. BIC Classification: 1HBM; AFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 688.
Superbly illustrated with more than 150 specially commissioned colour photographs, this book beautifully demonstrates the dazzling strengths of Morocco’s crafts – a centuries-long tradition which intermingles influences from both Black Africa and Islam, and from the spectacular cultural alliance of the Moors and the Spaniards. This pioneering account, based on the author’s own first-hand research, examines vibrantly coloured textiles, jewelry, leather, wood and metalwork and an enormous variety of pottery and ceramics. Complete with guidance for collectors and a uniquely revealing analysis of the belief systems, festivals and ceremonies to which the arts relate, this book by the leading scholar ... Read more
Superbly illustrated with more than 150 specially commissioned colour photographs, this book beautifully demonstrates the dazzling strengths of Morocco’s crafts – a centuries-long tradition which intermingles influences from both Black Africa and Islam, and from the spectacular cultural alliance of the Moors and the Spaniards. This pioneering account, based on the author’s own first-hand research, examines vibrantly coloured textiles, jewelry, leather, wood and metalwork and an enormous variety of pottery and ceramics. Complete with guidance for collectors and a uniquely revealing analysis of the belief systems, festivals and ceremonies to which the arts relate, this book by the leading scholar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Arts & Crafts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500278307
SKU
V9780500278307
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About James F. Jereb
Dr James F. Jereb has devoted many years to the study of Morocco and its traditional arts. He is an artist who works in paint, print and stone, and is the creator of ‘Stardreaming, Temples of the Cosmos’, a 22-acre sacred stone temple labyrinth complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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