WOODCARVING & ACCESSORIES

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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…

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…

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…