Oaxaca Wood Carving
Oaxaca Wood Carvings Ecoalebrijes
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Black Bear Oaxacan Wood Carving 8.5 Inch $129.00 Oaxacan alebrijes wood carvings are hand carved and painted in small villages in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. They are creative and wonderfully painted figures in bright fun colors. Each carving is an original piece of art. This fabulous piece measures approximately 8.5 inches long and 4.5 inch tall. Signed by the artist Ariel Playas. Handcrafted in Mexico…. |
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Giraffaram ~ Oaxacan Wood Carving 7.25 Inch $59.95 Giraffaram ~ Oaxacan wood carvings are hand carved and painted by Indians in small villages in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. They are creative and wonderfully painted figures in bright fun colors. Each carving is an original piece of art. This piece measures approximately 5 5/8 inches long and 2.5 inches wide by 7.25 inches tall. Signed by the artist. Handcrafted in Mexico…. |
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Giraffe ~ Oaxacan Wood Carving $89.95 Giraffe ~ Oaxacan wood carvings are hand carved and painted by Indians in small villages in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. They are creative and wonderfully painted figures in bright fun colors. Each carving is an original piece of art. This piece measures approximately 16 inches long and 4.25 inches wide by 14.5 inches tall. Signed by the artist. Handcrafted in Mexico…. |
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Oaxacan Woodcarving: The Magic in the Trees $11.25 Increasingly prized by collectors worldwide, Oaxacan woodcarvings are among the most popular form of folk art available today. These fanciful, brightly colored figures created by rural Mexican woodcarvers reflect the myths and traditions still very much a part of the carvers’ daily lives. A spectacular gallery of over 160 full-color photographs beautifully portrays these artisans and their work, w… |
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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) $14.39 Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-tw… |
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Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca’s Woodcarvers $24.50 This title takes a generational look at the fast-changing world of the woodcarvers of Oaxaca, Mexico. These artisans became famous in the 1980s for their colourful novelty figures, a contemporary folk art that Shephard Barbash and Vicki Ragan documented in the book “Oaxacan Woodcarvers”. Fourteen years later, beginning in 2004, Barbash and Ragan returned to Oaxaca and discovered many changes in th… |
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Wood Carving $24.99 Wood Carving – Photographic Print |
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Oaxaca Mexico Travel $39.99 Oaxaca Mexico Travel – Wood Sign |
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Fantastic Geometric Carving, Palace of the Columns, Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico $19.99 Robert Harding Fantastic Geometric Carving, Palace of the Columns, Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico – Photographic Print |
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Carving out a Future $69.95 Very little has yet been written about the cultural or economic contributions of woodcarving to people's livelihoods or the consequences of felling hardwood and softwood trees for the international woodcarving trade. Carving Out a Future is the first examination of this trade and its critical links to rural livelihoods biodiversity conservation forestry and the international trade regime. A range of case studies from Australia Bali IndiaAfrica and Mexico provides a lens for examining the critical issues relating to the significant impacts of woodcarving on forests conservation efforts the need to promote sustainable rural livelihoods and efforts to promote trade so that skilled artisans in developing countries get a fair economic return. Livelihoods Carving and Conservation * Global Overview * The Case of Woodcarving in Kenya * Drums and Hornbills * Sculpture and Identity * Carving Wood in Southern Zimbabwe * The Kiaat Woodcrafters of Bushbuckridge South Africa * Carvers Conservation and Certification in India * Colour Sustainability and Market Sense in Bali * Aboriginal Woodcarvers in Australia * BurseraWoodcarving in Oaxaca Mexico * Linaloe Wood Handicrafts * Learning from a Comparison of Cases * Carving Sustainability and Scarcity * Certification of Woodcarving * Planning for Woodcarving in the 21st Century * |
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Wood Carving Stately Angel $79.99 Wood Carving Stately Angel – Premium Photographic Print |
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Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca’s Woodcarvers $24.99 In 1993, author/journalist Shepard Barbash and photographer Vicki Ragan published the best seller Oaxacan Wood Carving: The Magic in the Trees that chronicled the art of Oaxacan wood carvers. Changing Dreams, a photo documentary style book, takes a generation-long look at the fast-changing world of the woodcarvers in Oaxaca, an increasingly popular tourist center where the carvers have become the main attraction. Faced with a range of negative trends, a number of Oaxacan artisans put aside their craft to become mojados, or illegal workers, drawn by the economic opportunities north of the border. |
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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings $22.95 Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit.In this beautifully illustrated book, Michael Chibnik offers the first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations. Drawing on interviews he conducted in the carving communities and among wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, he follows the entire production and consumption cycle, from the harvesting of copal wood to the final purchase of the finished piece. Along the way, he describes how and why this “invented tradition” has been promoted as a “Zapotec Indian” craft and explores its similarities with other local crafts with longer histories. He also fully discusses the effects on local communities of participating in the global market, concluding that the trade in Oaxacan wood carvings is an almost paradigmatic case study of globalization. |