MEXICAN Folk Art Pottery TREES OF LIFE Book UCLA Fowler Museum Lenore Mulryan

Description

Title: Ceramic Trees of Life: Popular Art from Mexico
Author:
Lenore Hoag Mulryan, with essays by Delia Cosentino, Elizabeth Cuellar and Luis Lazcano, Marta Turok
Publisher:
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, California
Copyright Date and Edition:
2003, likely first printing
ISBN:
093074196X
Exhibition:
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003
Pages:
167 pages
Format, Size:
Softcover, 8" by 10"
Language:
English
Illustrations:
predominantly full-color images, with some black-and-white period photographs
This hard-to-find, richly illustrated catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition of Mexican folk art Trees of Life, held at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 2003.
"Lenore Mulryan brings 25 years of experience conducting field research on Mexican ceramic art to this text, her third collaboration with the Fowler Museum. The publication accompanies an exhibition drawn largely from the Gerald Daniel Collection of Mexican Folk Art, gifted to the Museum in 1997, and features works dating from the 1940s to late-1990s. The text traces the origins of the Tree of Life to its Pre-Columbian past, and the evolution of the genre in three Mexican potting towns. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the pieces, plus black-and-white period photographs."
Review from Booklist:
"One of the most recognizable and beloved of popular Mexican art forms is the Tree of Life, elaborate ceramic constructions depicting stylized trees with diverse human and animal figures perching on their many branches. Trees of Life are "complex hybrids of indigenous and European concepts and customs" and therefore reflect a grand spectrum of cosmologies and historical vignettes. Mexican art specialist Mulryan and her art historian and anthropologist contributors offer a lively history of the Tree of Life from its roots in the reverence for trees expressed by the Maya, Aztec, and Mixtec to the grafting on of Christian beliefs. Mulryan and company also explain the techniques involved in the complex, gravity-defying construction of Trees of Life and profile a contemporary master potter, Heron Martinez Mendoza, but best of all are the gorgeously detailed photographs of Trees of Life from Pre-Columbian times to the present."
Condition: Very good plus to excellent minus used condition
, coming from a smoke-free, pet-free environment. Binding tight, pages complete and clean, covers have only minor general wear (mostly some surface wear to back cover).
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