ISBN: 0810919907

[SR: 1253471], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780810919907], Harry N. Abrams, Harry N. Abrams, Book, [PU: Harry N. Abrams], Harry N. Abrams, This New York Times award-winning book explores the mural p… Mehr…

[SR: 1253471], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780810919907], Harry N. Abrams, Harry N. Abrams, Book, [PU: Harry N. Abrams], Harry N. Abrams, This New York Times award-winning book explores the mural paintings that Basotho women apply to their homes. It includes more than 100 color photographs by the author, which constituted an acclaimed exhibition presented in New York, Paris, and other venues. The text explains the cultural and historical context of Basotho murals, including chapters on male an female initiation that show how body arts are linked to house decoration. Basotho architecture and murals are imbued with fertility symbolism that links women, the earth, and plant forms. The mandala-like geometric patterns are prayers in paint, addressed to the ancestors and appealing for rain. When the renewing rain comes, it washes away the murals designs, which are replaced or rejuvenated the following year. The art form is part of the cycle of life. The patterns captured in the photographs have inspired mural designs throughout America, in public projects ranging from Times Square to Arizona. The book is based on the author's dissertation and draws on several years' fieldwork in the Free State of South Africa and in Lesotho, for which he received a Rockefeller Award., Prayer and protest come in many guises. The Basotho women of South Africa and Lesotho pray to their ancestors for rain, abundance, and peace by painting and slicing brilliant geometric murals on the mud plaster walls of their houses. "If the prayers are successful," says photographer and author Gary N. van Wyk, "the rains arrive and wash away the paintings." Growing up white under apartheid, van Wyk noticed these vivid houses while traveling with his family through the Highveld below Johannesburg where many Basotho lived and worked on white-owned farms. In the years when links to the outlawed African National Congress party were often severely punished, some Basotho women defiantly splashed their homes with the black, green, and gold colors of the ANC. Van Wyk joined in such protests as an art student by helping paint street murals of state-sanctioned violence. A passion for recording political graffiti led him back to the dwellings decorated in ANC colors, several of which he photographed for this dazzling testament to Basotho lives, ceremonies, history, and art. --Francesca Coltrera, 1007, Residential, 266162, Buildings, 173508, Architecture, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4539344011, Decoration & Ornament, 173508, Architecture, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10825731, Criticism, 1064, History & Criticism, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 15762841, Women in Art, 197504011, Themes, 1064, History & Criticism, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 713036011, History, 1064, History & Criticism, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 1873, Religious, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 4762, Africa, 15812761, Central Africa, 15812771, East Africa, 15812791, North Africa, 15812781, Southern Africa, 15812801, West Africa, 4763, Algeria, 4997, Egypt, 4773, Ethiopia, 4781, Kenya, 4793, Nigeria, 4798, South Africa, 4799, Sudan, 4807, Zimbabwe, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5399, Decoration & Ornament, 5396, Decorating & Design, 6158312011, Home Improvement & Design, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5408, Painting & Wallpapering, 5396, Decorating & Design, 6158312011, Home Improvement & Design, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780810919907

This book is the first to focus on the ancient and extraordinary tradition of mural painting among the Basotho people of Lesotho in southern Africa.The brilliant and complex mural designs… Mehr…

This book is the first to focus on the ancient and extraordinary tradition of mural painting among the Basotho people of Lesotho in southern Africa.The brilliant and complex mural designs are painted by Basotho women on the earthen walls of their homes. Not merely decorations, the murals are, symbolically, painted prayers, appeals to the spirits of ancestors who live in the earth for peace, for plenty, and for rain, which feeds the crops the women tend. The murals, which wash away and must be repainted every year, also express the Basotho's pride in their own identity.Author Gary N. van Wyk explores the meaning of these colorful, geometric, and often highly abstract designs by examining the history, religion, and vital traditions of the Basotho. In fascinating text and superb photographs he describes and pictures not only the ongoing glory of their house-painting art but also male and female initiation ceremonies and the powerful spirituality of diviners and healers. Media > Book, [PU: Harry N. Abrams]<

ISBN: 9780810919907

This book is the first to focus on the ancient and extraordinary tradition of mural painting among the Basotho people of Lesotho in southern Africa. The brilliant and complex mural desi… Mehr…

This book is the first to focus on the ancient and extraordinary tradition of mural painting among the Basotho people of Lesotho in southern Africa. The brilliant and complex mural designs are painted by Basotho women on the earthen walls of their homes. Not merely decorations, the murals are, symbolically, painted prayers, appeals to the spirits of ancestors who live in the earth for peace, for plenty, and for rain, which feeds the crops the women tend. The murals, which wash away and must be repainted every year, also express the Basotho's pride in their own identity. Author Gary N. van Wyk explores the meaning of these colorful, geometric, and often highly abstract designs by examining the history, religion, and vital traditions of the Basotho. In fascinating text and superb photographs he describes and pictures not only the ongoing glory of their house-painting art but also male and female initiation ceremonies and the powerful spirituality of diviners and healers. African Painted Houses Van Wyk, Gary, ABRAMS<

1998, ISBN: 9780810919907

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[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Harry N. Abrams], DE, [SC: 4.50], Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, 168, [GW: 1005g], [PU: New York], Banküberweisung, Kreditkarte, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Internationaler Versand<