African Textiles Today

Name: African Textiles Today
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ISBN: 9781588343802

ISBN-10: 1588343804

ISBN-13: 9781588343802

Edition: 2012

Authors: Chris Spring

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African Textiles Todayillustrates how African history is read,told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia,…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 10/9/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.77" wide x 10.89" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 3.630
Language: English