About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Quilt, Alebrije, Indigenous Australian art, Duck decoy, Keffiyeh, Votive paintings of Mexico, Folk arts of Karnataka, Rangoli, Banners in Northern Ireland, Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow, Lubok, Retablo, Kiwiana, Rubik's Cube in popular culture, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Hex sign, African folk art, Fish decoy, List of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties, Die-Cut Plug Wiring Diagram Book, Sock monkey, The Orange Show, The Old Plantation, Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, Papel picado, Ernie Mills, Chinese paper cutting, Papercutting, Ore Mountain folk art, Ex-voto, Kry dirbyst, Straw painting, Customised buses and trucks in Pakistan, Fraktur, Nicho, Mazinibaganjigan, Tofail Ahmed, Santo, Meditation by the Sea, Beer Can House, Cogswell's Grant, Screen painting, Jenny Haniver, Dievdirbys, Tole painting, Fish carving, Wild Fowl Decoys, Folkster, Shulaibao, Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, Spar box, Lath art. Excerpt: Alebrijes (Spanish pronunciation: ) are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Linares was originally from Mexico City (DF), he was born June 29th, 1906 in Mexico City and never moved out of Mexico City, he died January 25th, 1992. Then in the 1980's, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jimenez and a textil artisan Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history of carving animal and other types of fi...
