Research Catalog

Title

Weaving space : textiles and tales from Guatemala / David B. Greene.

Author

Greene, David B.

Publication

Cary, NC : Mayagraphic Publications ; Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala : Mayagrafic Publicaciones, c2009.

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Details

Description

156 p., [54] p. of plates : col. ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"What makes the colors and designs of Guatemalan textiles so gripping that they fascinate people from all over the world? Is there any connection between what foreigners love and the meaning of these textiles for the women who make them? This book, based on a comprehensive study of hundreds of textiles, analyzes them with the care and detail that art critics give to paintings and sculpture that also have nearly universal appeal. The analysis zeroes in on the way the play of colors generates space. In order to allow the Maya to speak in their own terms about space, the book summarizes folktales from each of the ethnic-linguistic groups from which come the textiles. All of these stories juxtapose different kinds of space - the space of everyday human activity, the space of heroic action, the space of the gods demands, the space in which talking animals go about their business. These spaces and the way they are joined or juxtaposed with those in the textiles are compared to those in the textiles."--

Alternative Title

Textiles and tales from Guatemala

Subject

• Maya textile fabrics > Guatemala
• Textile design > Guatemala
• Hand weaving > Guatemala
• Folklore > Guatemala
• Mayas > Folklore
• Space (Art)
• Tales > Guatemala
• Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Guatemala

Genre/Form

• Folklore
• Folklore.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Unfolding color and space in Maya textiles and tales -- Space in four Maya ethnic hroups -- K'iche' textiles and stories from the Popol Vuh -- Maya textiles and tales from Miguel Ángel Asturias -- Guatemalan textiles and tales from Jorge Luis Borges -- Unfolding a new question.

ISBN

• 9780984070503
• 0984070508

OCLC

• 569030015
• SCSB-12283050

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library