How to read African textiles / Christine Giuntini and Jenny Peruski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giuntini, Christine, author.

Peruski, Jenny, author.

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body.

Series:

How to read (Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)) ; [13]

How to read ; [13]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--Africa--Catalogs.

Textile fabrics.

Textile crafts--Africa--Catalogs.

Textile crafts.

Textile fabrics--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Africa.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 27 cm

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Other Title:

African textiles

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]

Summary:

"Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics could be endlessly adapted to communal and individual needs, variously serving to clothe the body, divide architectural space, protect the physical and spiritual wellbeing of the wearer, and convey the wealth and authority of the owner. In this volume of The Met's acclaimed and popular How to Read series, readers are guided through forty masterworks of African fiber arts, from a dynamic nineteenth-century interior hanging from Sierra Leone to a dreamlike textile canvas by contemporary Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa. Organized geographically, the book explores the complex histories of production, consumption, and exchange attached to these extraordinary works, providing clear explanations of long-standing and newly embraced techniques and materials, as well as offering readers new ways to appreciate Africa's diverse textile traditions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Director's foreword

Acknowledgments

Note to the reader

Map

Introduction

Western Sahel

West African coastal forests

Central Africa

East Africa

Sources

Further reading

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 176) and index.

ISBN:

9781588397911

1588397912

OCLC:

1514319215

Publisher Number:

90102153366

CIPO000236323