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Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Enciso, Jorge, 1879-1969 is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a sourcebook and treasury of unique designs, in a collection never published before300 original motifs created by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Totonacs, and othersall 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, fretsemployed 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 desiredin advertising, book design, packages, wrappings, labels, bookplates, textiles, wallpapers, leather craft, woodwork, jewelry, metalcraftthese motifs

Author

Enciso, Jorge, 1879-1969

Publisher

Dover Publications : Constable

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486227948

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Art