African Designs from Traditional Sources

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Since the discovery of African art by the Cubists, the primitive strength of its motifs has held a fascination for recent artists and designers and has exercised a considerable infl uence on the development of brand new art. This book brings together an unusually varied selection of African designs with the intention to find many uses in advertising and in the creation of book designs, bookplates, labels, and patterns for textiles and wallpaper; or may simply serve as inspiration for the creation of original designs. Rendered in stark black-and-white, they could also be reproduced, enlarged, reduced or altered at will.
Symbolic and simple geometric motifs, repetitive designs and textural patterns, representations of human beings, animals and mythical figures, masks, abstract motifs, and artifacts and objects with figural components are reproduced from the work of the Ndebele, Ashanti, Zulu, Masai, Bushongo, Mangbetu, Bariba, Toma, Baule and lots of other tribes. There are designs from carved ivory pendants and bracelets, helmet masks, wooden combs, altar slabs and shields, and designs printed on cloth and painted on doors and walls. Each and every is identified by original use, and the source is listed for Each and every.
Geoffrey Williams, himself a practicing designer, has reproduced some of these designs by the use of linocut prints so as to capture the power of the originals. His sources have been artifacts in museums and private collections with a couple of designs gathered from the pages of important publications on the subject. A bibliography refers the reader not only to the sources of material used for this book, but to other major sources of information about African tribal art.

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